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Dixon: On Left Organizations: A Response to Epstein's Article
Znet Article, August, 18 2009
Chris Dixon
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Barbara Epstein's article “Why the US Left is Weak - and What to Do About It†offers lots of provocative points, both implicitly in the way that she tells history and explicitly through her recommendations. Although I disagree with some aspect...
Esteva: The New Society
Znet Article, August, 17 2009
Gustavo Esteva
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We describe in this essay how the society we imagine will look like and how we can reach it.
Grubacic: Don't Mourn, Balkanize!
Znet Article, August, 12 2009
Andrej Grubacic
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A decade or so ago, during the European humanitarian adventure in the Balkans, Michael Nicholson, an eminent British journalist, wrote in his "Natasha's Story" that "The ferocity of the Balkan peoples has at times been so primitive that anthropolo...
Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Znet Article, August, 10 2009
Mark Evans
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A twenty first century revolutionary left organisation established to facilitate the building of a popular movement should do all it can to learn lessons from its own history.
Nunes: Dictionary of received ideas (in the interest of passing them on)
Znet Article, August, 10 2009
Rodrigo Nunes
Nunes's ZSpace page
The cycle of struggles of the turn of the century has, against its participants’ best wishes, perhaps inevitably gone down in history as the ‘anti-globalisation movement’.
Alperovitz: America Beyond Capitalism: the Pluralist Commonwealth
Znet Article, August, 10 2009
Gar Alperovitz
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Is it possible to conceive in serious and practical terms an “America Beyond Capitalism†(ABC)? The following presents a summation of the systemic argument of my recent book of this title, together with an expanded elaboration of certain key p...
Halling: Reimagining A Global Law
Znet Article, August, 10 2009
Matt Halling
Halling's ZSpace page
International law in a new society wouldn't exist. Allow me to explain. Let's say the goal of reimagining society is to create something that is more participatory: self managed in line with the values of parecon and parpolity.
Mohideen: Socialist Feminist Revival
Znet Article, August, 09 2009
Reihana Mohideen
Mohideen's ZSpace page
There is a revival of socialist feminism in Latin America, spearheaded by the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions.
Marshall: Lethal Defense Training in a Good Society
Znet Article, August, 09 2009
Rob Marshall
Marshall's ZSpace page
A future society that has freed itself from oppressive institutions will not engage in the aggressive wars for conquest plaguing our world today. However, in the absence of a worldwide revolution that ends all destructive institutions everywhere, ...
Mestrum: Re: Why the US Left is Weak - and What to Do About It*
Znet Article, August, 08 2009
Francine Mestrum
Mestrum's ZSpace page
I very much agree with Barbara Epstein. Her reasoning is as valid for Europe as for the US.
Hollibaugh: Going for Broke
Znet Article, August, 08 2009
Amber Hollibaugh
Hollibaugh's ZSpace page
In the early days of the epidemic, gay men and a few lesbian, bisexual and transgender activists gathered together in cities across the U.S. to seriously discuss what we would do if our government decided to require mandatory HIV testing. If peop...
Muto: Toward Global People’s Autonomy
Znet Article, August, 07 2009
Ichiyo Muto
Muto's ZSpace page
My point of departure in imagining “another world†is that we are in the second wave of historical people’s movement against capitalism, the first wave being the 19-20 century communist-socialist movement concentrating on the seizure of stat...
Novitch: Planning Revolution
Znet Article, August, 05 2009
Misty Novitch
Novitch's ZSpace page
Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications.
Kipping: A basic income as an allowance for democracy
Znet Article, August, 05 2009
Katja Kipping
Kipping's ZSpace page
The most logical answer to the insecurity caused by the precariousness and transformation of the world of work is an unconditional basic income. Not everything labelled a “basic income†today is actually an unconditional basic income, meaning ...
Suggett: Post-Sexist Society
Znet Article, August, 05 2009
James Suggett
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This essay is an effort to look beyond the struggle to resist, critique, and understand sexist oppression, and articulate a revolutionary vision for specifically how we wish to structure a new society that nurtures and sustains healthy gender r...
Hawkins: Municipal Development Bank
Znet Article, August, 05 2009
Howie Hawkins
Hawkins's ZSpace page
At the general level of a socialist vision, I think we have broad agreement that we want a participatory democracy of political and economic institutions that empower ordinary people to meet their needs without exploitation or oppression in an eco...
Dixon: Re: Autonomous Politics and its Problems
Znet Article, August, 03 2009
Chris Dixon
Dixon's ZSpace page
In my view, Ezequiel Adamovsky’s essay “Autonomous Politics and its Problems†is an important contribution to discussions about left strategy and vision. In particular, I think Adamovsky raises some key questions for those of us engaged in a...
Epitropoulos: On Freedom and Order
Znet Article, August, 03 2009
Mike Epitropoulos
Epitropoulos's ZSpace page
Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications
Bohmer: Venezuela: Socialism for the 21st Century
Znet Article, August, 03 2009
Peter Bohmer
Bohmer's ZSpace page
For much of the 19th and 20th century, socialism was the hope of millions of working people around the globe, including the United States in the early part of the 20th century. This was the period of the growth of the Socialist Party and the Indus...
Sandstrom: Re: Imagine and then Act
Znet Article, August, 01 2009
Anders Sandstrom
Sandstrom's ZSpace page
Differences in how the Parecon institutions are received
