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Albert: Resurrect the 'R' Word
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Michael Albert
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Consider this: eight million unemployed, 35 million poor, 20 million “hungry,” 400,000 homeless, a third of government expenditures financing militarism. IBM controls 80 percent in computers; GE and Westinghouse control 85 percent in heavy electri...
Albert: Marxism’s Anniversary, Long Live (a piece of) Marxism!
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the 150th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto is that, well, who cares? The answer is: nearly no one. More, nearly no one would care about Marx’s birthday or Lenin’s, or about the birthday of the Russian,...
Albert: Yawning Emptiness
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Michael Albert
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Just after the Washington Demos, the NY Times, Washington Post, and many other mainstream media outlets did “evaluative” pieces on the events. The Seattle and DC demonstrators don’t know what they want. The activists offer nothing beyond capitalis...
Lucker: Questions and Concerns on Majavu's Criticisms of Fanon in "Africa: Life After Colonialism"
Znet Article, December, 03 2008
Andy Lucker
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After reading Mandisi Majavu's article "Africa: Life After Colonialism," I have to say that I have a lot of questions and concerns. Specifically, I wonder what the theoretical implications would be in the U.S., especially considering the followi...
Albert: What Now?
Zmag Article, December, 01 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert on possible scenarios for the Obama presidency and an activist's response.
Administrator: Venezuelan elections 2008 and their implications for the participatory project
Znet Article, November, 27 2008
Site Administrator
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The 2008 Venezuelan elections and the country's ongoing participtory project...
Albert: Markets Uber Alles?
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Other than broad references to income distribution, homelessness, infrastructure, and ecology, most efforts to demonstrate the above points have been abstract and have not yet convinced even progressive economists, much less the broad population. ...
Albert: Marketeers?!
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Last issue I took a swipe at John Roemer’s new book The Future of Socialism. I also blasted Sam Bowles for praising the book on the back cover. I don’t like it when people who know better tell the public that markets—one of the most destruct...
Albert: Goodbye Soviets?
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The dissolution of the Soviet Union has been a severe psychic loss for many leftists. Why? The end of Soviet power has increased U.S. military dominance. There is a grave possibility of famine. Even without a new coup, Yeltsin and/or his counterpa...
Albert: Cuba SÃ?
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In the nearly three decades since Castro's assessment, for all of Latin America except Cuba, the above statistics have improved little, or worsened. In the 1980s, income in Latin America, excluding Cuba, declined by 8 percent, according to the Int...
Albert: Revolutions in the East
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
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As a Czech poster put it, “the Poles took ten years, the Hungarians ten months, the East Germans ten weeks, and the Czechoslovaks only ten days†to topple regimes once viewed as unassailable. Here is an attempt to distinguish the good news fro...
Albert: Reply To Democracy And Nature Comments
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
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Having been kindly invited to contribute to an upcoming issue of Democracy & Nature, I was sent some back issues, including No. 9. In it I found Takis Fotopoulis’s “Outline for an Economic Model†and in that I found a number of references to...
Albert: Participatory Economics
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
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According to most economists, the activities of separate groups of producers and consumers can be coordinated by markets or by authoritarian planning—but there is no “third way.â€
Albert: Socialism As It Was Always Meant To Be
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
As the twentieth century draws to a close, what have we learned about how we should manage our economic affairs? What should we do if we had the opportunity to start again?
Albert: Venezuelan Direct Democracy: The case of the Consejos Comunales.
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In 2004, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez created a movement named the consejos comunales (communal councils) aimed at creating more responsive local governance by handing local budgetary and legislative power to the councils. This movement was se...
Albert: Markets Über Alles?
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Other than broad references to income distribution, homelessness, infrastructure, and ecology, most efforts to demonstrate the above points have been abstract and have not yet convinced even progressive economists, much less the broad population. ...
Albert: Neoclassical Micro And Macro Economics--Science Or Silliness?
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
BY ITS own claims economics is the most scientific "social science." Yet non-economist critics such as E.F. Schumacher tell us that "to produce [economic] figures about the unknown, the current method is to make a guess about something or other--c...
Albert: When the Ship Comes In
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The following is a slightly revised transcript of the Testimony Presentation by Michael Albert delivered at the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002.
Albert: Participatory Economics Interview
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
We're in the studio today with Michael Albert, activist and author of several books, including Looking Forward from South End Press and Political Economy of Participatory Economics from Princeton University Press, and co-founder and editor of Z Ma...
Albert: ParEcon
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I call those fallen Eastern Bloc economies coordinator economies because coordinators are the people in the economy who largely monopolize empowering work, higher incomes, great power, and high status, all of it justified by educational credential...
