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Znet Article Albert: Reply to Maass 2

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Maass has written a rejoinder focusing on focus -- that is, focusing on whether Marxism takes into account other realms than the economy effectively. This is a topic I didn't want to pursue and which I barely raised at all in the piece he is react...

Znet Article Albert: First Reply To Maass's Opening Essay

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Maass opens his essay by defending Marxism against criticisms "that Karl Marx and Frederick Engels predicted that capitalism would collapse, and it hasn’t; that the fall of the Berlin Wall exposed the failure of Marxism; that class struggle can’t ...

Znet Article Albert: Albert Conclusion

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Our topic in this debate has been the relevance of Marxism for seeking social change today. My view has been that while Marxism of course contains many powerful and important insights, adhering to Marxism as a guiding ideology that we label oursel...

Znet Article Albert: Albert Rejoins

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Before getting into your points, you and I disagree so much about the texts you quote and about the historical events you have referenced that to clash on that just won't yield progress, I fear, though it may give us both carpel tunnel syndrome. Y...

Znet Article Albert: Excerpt from the introduction to Looking Forward (sep 1990)

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Following the fine and sober book by the Hungarians George Konrad and Ivan Szelenyi, The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), we can transcend the U.S. government, the Soviet government, the New York Times, and mos...

Znet Article Albert: Marxism: Virtues & Problems

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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How do we decide whether to employ Marxism? Do its concepts highlight what's most important and leave out what's peripheral? Do they reveal the roots of oppression? Do they conceive liberating relationships? Do they effectively inform activist int...

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Staudenmaier 3

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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I guess we had a confusion about our assignments. I thought one thread (this one) was to discuss social ecology's vision (its whole vision, including politics) and the other was to discuss parecon. This thread, that is, would be you presenting soc...

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Staudenmaier 2

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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Peter, you begin by saying you may have missed some important issues. I hope you won't mind my saying that I think perhaps you did skip some central matters...and that you also won't mind my returning to some points raised before, again, as well a...

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Staudenmaier

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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Peter, you begin by saying we must turn our attention to the social structures that can make a free society more likely. I agree...

Znet Article Albert: Replying to Social Ecology Forum Post 1

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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I received a post from Michael Caplan, who is engineering/moderating this debate...I'm not sure who it is from, but hi.

Znet Article Albert: Replying to Staudenmaier

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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What have we embarked on--keeping up is hard to do. And I've even got another debate going on, with a prominent member of ISO, about Marxism. So, apologies. I should take longer with this, to make it more concise and exact...but with everything el...

Znet Article Albert: Rejoining Staudenmaier

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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I am happy to hear many social ecologists agree with balanced job complexes. I'll follow the debate topics you raise in the order you propose, but do so as I would write a private letter, to make our debates less formal. I apologize for the length...

Znet Article Albert: Summarizing Participatory Economics

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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The task of developing a vision for any sphere of social life is to set out the functions the domain must accomplish, the values we hold dear, and the institutions that can accomplish the functions while propelling the values.

Znet Article Albert: Exploring Libertarian Municipalism and Parecon...

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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In early November, 1999, ZNet posted an article by Michael Albert entitled Assessing Libertarian Municipalism. This page is devoted to discussion of that article. It includes messages received and rejoinders and explorations that ensued, as best w...

Znet Article Albert: Assessing Libertarian Municipalism

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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On a recent speaking tour to Montreal (1999) a number of folks asked me my reactions to Libertarian Municipalism-a vision for politics emanating from the "School of Social Ecology." Others put it to me more specifically: How did I react to the rej...

Znet Article Albert: Replying to Mandell and Finger

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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Am I somehow soft on Centrally Planned Socialism? Let me reassure Mandell: I am not. I abhor it. On the other hand, there is no point decrying this economic structure because it can exist intertwined with and supporting a grotesque political dicta...

Znet Article Albert: Is Socialism Still on the Agenda?

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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To answer the title question, I have to provide answers for three possible meanings of "socialism" and also for a semantic issue, the use of the word "socialism," in any form.

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Horowitz 4

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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I can understand being busy, I have that problem too... When you want to stop our exchange, however, you will have to stop writing content. As long as you reply with new points, I will reply in turn. It is my habit, and I type quickly.

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Horowitz 3

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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You say "Socialism doesn't work first because you can't substitute politics (plans) for the market and get anything like a rational allocation of resources..."

Znet Article Albert: Albert Replies Anew

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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Let's assume all your assertions about the Soviet economy circa 1980 are precisely correct. To have bearing on what I argued about centrally planned socialism's capacity to accomplish material development despite its other drawbacks, you would hav...

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