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Znet Article Gulli: Utopia: The barely visible and the practical market

Znet Article, June, 22 2009 Bruno Gulli
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications

Znet Article Houtart: Proposal For A Universal Declaration On The Common Well-Being Of Humanity

Znet Article, June, 22 2009 Francois Houtart
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Confronted as we are by a financial crisis which is affecting the world economy and which combines with a food, energy and climate crisis that is leading to a social and humanitarian catastrophe, various reactions are being expressed.

Znet Article Lipow: Growing a Better World

Znet Article, June, 22 2009 Gar Lipow
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"Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth." So begins "Prosperity Without Growth"[1], the report of the UK government's Sustainable Development Commission. Questioning growth has been the obsessive foc...

Znet Article Greeman: How to get from Here to There: A Modern 'Archimedes Hypothesis'

Znet Article, June, 21 2009 Richard Greeman
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By all appearances, capitalism, decadent since the First World War is rapidly descending into economic depression, social barbarism and ecological suicide. In 2009, slowly reforming the system - always a dubious proposition - seems less and less p...

Znet Article Kane: Socialism in the U.S?: Smart, Slow, and From Below

Znet Article, June, 21 2009 John Kane
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The article by Ehrenreich and Fletcher on "Re-imagining Socialism, as well as the many responses it has elicited, are evidence of Socialism's resounding appeal to those who yearn for a more just, humane, and equitable world. The increasingly tired...

Znet Article Baker: Envisioning the Future Requires Knowing the Present

Znet Article, June, 20 2009 Dean Baker
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As every backcountry hiker recognizes, you must first know where you are before you can figure out how to get to where you want to be. While it is important to know where we want to go, progressives often badly misunderstand where we are now.

Znet Article Ho: Future Forward: A Vision For Revolution

Znet Article, June, 19 2009 Fred Ho
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When Eric and I were first conversing about how this event would be constructed, I stressed to him my opinion that it should focus on the future. While I believe it is necessary to learn from the past (both mistakes and accomplishments)—what we...

Znet Article Siefkes: The Commons of the Future

Znet Article, June, 18 2009 Christian Siefkes
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In many times and in many areas, production was organized around a pool of commons—resources that were jointly used and managed by a community of people, according to some community-defined rules. In many societies, water, air, forests and land ...

Znet Article Milstein: Anarchism's Promise for Anticapitalist Resistance

Znet Article, June, 18 2009 Cindy Milstein
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For many, a "new anarchism" seemed to have been birthed amid the cold rain and toxic fog that greeted the November 1999 World Trade Organization protest. Yet rather than the bastard child of an emergent social movement, this radical politics of re...

Znet Article Vltchek: World Can't Be Changed Without Fighting Western Propaganda

Znet Article, June, 17 2009 Andre Vltchek
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Sometimes I am chased by nightmares: I am in the middle of some bombed out refugee camp, maybe in Congo (DRC) or in some other desperate country at the periphery of media interests. Children are running around with swollen bellies, clearly sufferi...

Znet Article George: Socialist Vision beyond the Nation-State

Znet Article, June, 15 2009 Justin George
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As we imagine a different society, we must carefully look to ensure that what we retain from today's world will not corrupt or distort our efforts in the future. Borders, like walls, are designed to keep people both in and out. They act as a form ...

Znet Article Wetzel: From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society

Znet Article, June, 15 2009 Tom Wetzel
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When Marx drew up a draft set of principles for the first International Working Men's Association (the "First International") in the 1860s, he began with the statement:

Znet Article Sweetman: Psychology for a Participatory Society: Revisiting Some Early Questions

Znet Article, June, 13 2009 Joseph Sweetman
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What is psychology? What does psychological science have to offer those concerned with participatory society and progressive social change? These are some of the questions that would occasionally pop into my somewhat bored mind as I sat at the ba...

Znet Article Mcgehee: Bringing La Otra Campana to the Empire

Znet Article, June, 12 2009 Michael Mcgehee
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I realize we were asked to have our essays between 3,000 - 5,000 words and that "The Reimagining Society Project is entirely about positively and innovatively proposing vision and strategy for the future." But this essay will be considerably short...

Znet Article Christini: Assembling the Future

Znet Article, June, 12 2009 Tony Christini
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Nothing bests great vision and nothing accounts for great planning like the thing materialized.

Znet Article Majavu: Overcoming some of the suicidal tendencies of the left

Znet Article, June, 01 2009 Mandisi Majavu
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications...

Znet Article Evans: Popular Vision and Vanguardism

Znet Article, May, 30 2009 Mark Evans
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The current economic crisis has dealt a powerful blow to Milton Friedman's socio-economic vision and the dogma, propounded by followers of the Chicago School movement - there is no alternative - that has helped maintain it. As a result people ever...

Znet Article Davidson: Eleven Talking Points On 21st Century Socialism

Znet Article, May, 25 2009 Carl Davidson
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The current discussion around socialism in left and progressive circles in the U.S. needs to be placed in a more substantive arena. This is an effort to do so. I take note in advance of the criticism that the following eleven working hypotheses ar...

Znet Article Graeber: Hope in Common

Znet Article, May, 21 2009 David Graeber
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications...

Znet Article Hahnel: Overcoming Blind Spots In Left Vision: Participatory Planning

Znet Article, May, 15 2009 Robin Hahnel
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Contribution to Reimagining Society: Participatory Planning

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