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Albert: Parecon: Future & Present
Znet Article, April, 27 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Opening essay offered as part of an extended exploration of views conducted with Michel Bauwens. Digital Curator and co-founder Peer to Peer Foundation
Lucker: IVAW's Latest Winter Soldier Gets "general discharge under honorable conditions"
Znet Article, April, 22 2009
Andy Lucker
Lucker's ZSpace page
Yesterday, Sgt. Mathis Chiroux proclaimed in court that he refused to deploy to Iraq, because of the Iraq War's illegality, grotesqueness, and dishonesty. In the end, he received a “general discharge under honorable conditionsâ€. This sets an...
Albert: Alternative Economy Cultures Documentations
Video, April, 09 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The "Alternative Economy Cultures (alt.econ.cult) programme on April 3rd & 5th brings together leading international and Finnish thinkers, cultural practitioners and activists, to present alternative economic visions.
Peters: Women Who Bathe Together
Commentary, April, 06 2009
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
At a public bath in Morocco, I watched a young adolescent bathe her grandmother. She picked up each limb, moved her breasts this way and that, and shifted her belly about to reach every crevice. She stood over her, squatted next to her, and sat al...
Albert: Another Left Turn In Venezuela
Znet Article, March, 30 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The development of the Bolivarian Revolution, including using the institutional gains achieved to date to meet human needs and develop popular potentials via humane policies, as well as establishing further institutional gains, his encountered thr...
Albert: Demand, Don't Succumb
Znet Article, March, 26 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
A short term program addressing getting out of the current economic crisis...
Albert: Michael Albert, Julio Chávez, Noam Chomsky and Gregory Wilpert Speak on Building a Society from Below
Audio, March, 24 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert, on a panel with Julio Chávez, Noam Chomsky and Gregory Wilpert.
Albert: Parecon or Markets
Znet Article, March, 11 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Replying to Erik Olin Wright's reactions to parecon
Albert: Taking Up The Task
Znet Article, March, 08 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Following the Ehrenreich/Fletcher instruction to Reimagine Socialism
Administrator: Bolivavarian Rebellion: against definition and a kingdom of ends
Znet Article, March, 08 2009
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
This piece criticises the tendency of international leftist observers to categorise the Bolivarian process. It argues that the lack of definition should be seen as a strength, an indicator of continuing Venezuelan rebellion manifest in a participa...
Albert: Seven Reasons Why I Advocate Parecon
Znet Article, March, 05 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
An essay for a joint exploration/debate of economic vision to be undertaken with Heinz Dieterich
Administrator: Discourse and Division: why Chávez and the opposition are calling for consensual politics
Znet Article, February, 26 2009
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
This piece examines the recent avalanche of calls to a more consensual politics in Venezuela. It suggests that from both sides this rhetoric is insincere and examines their transition from a discourse of conflict to one of consensus
Albert: Venezuela
Audio, February, 21 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert interviewed by Ron Daniels...
Administrator: Venezuelan term limits: personalismo and success for the "Yes"
Znet Article, February, 16 2009
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
This piece examines accusations of personalismo in Venezuela following the wake of the Yes block´s victory, removing term limits and enabling President Chávez to seek re-election.
Administrator: Means and Mobilization: Venezuela's referendum on term limits
Znet Article, February, 14 2009
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
This piece examines the use of state means by the "Yes" block in the campaign for the removal of term limits in Venezuela.
Albert: Judging Economic Policy
Commentary, February, 10 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The economy is a shambles. True, from the perspective of the poor, it was also a shambles before the current crisis, but things are now so discombobulated that even stratospheric penthouses are leaking cash. Collapse beckons. Urgency dictates poli...
Administrator: Framing the Debate: Narrative, Violence and Democratic Competition
Znet Article, February, 02 2009
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
This piece suggests the chief causes of the decentralised and sporadic violence that has so far marred the run up to the Venezuelan referendum on February 15th are the narrative frames within which it has been positioned. Both sides consider thems...
Administrator: The Venezuelan Participatory State
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
This piece examines current attitudes regarding the Venezuelan Community Councils and their relationship with government funding.
Albert: Back to Class
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I first became politically active in 1966. By 1969—it was a fast moving time—I had a pretty well developed political perspective. For a couple of decades, along with trying to develop new media institutions and some other left projects, I had a pr...
Albert: Canadian Dimension Interview
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
This Fall Michael Albert went to Canada for some talks and did an interview with the excellent Canadian Magazine, Canadian Dimension. Here is an essentially verbatim transcript they prepared for publication in Canada.
