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Forum Post Albert: Re: Pull More Than Your Own Weight!

Forum Post, July, 06 2010 Michael Albert
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 I think we may disagree about the from each to each - both our understands, and reactions - but let's let that sit... You write: "given that Parecon is meant to scale up to large economies, wouldn’t there need to be some way ...

Forum Post Evans: Re: Alternative

Forum Post, July, 05 2010 Mark Evans
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 Hi Jack – You say “I find the chapters to be anything but participatory”.What is this conclusion based upon?  How many local chapter meeting have you attended?According to you local chapters aren’t participatory ...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Regarding Parecon...

Forum Post, July, 04 2010 Michael Albert
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There is no centralized state in the sense I suspect you mean in a parecon. There is nothing to finance, regarding income - if you think of it slightly differently than people are used to. Society produces outputs - people are remunerated with cla...

Forum Post Evans: PPS-UK: A New Society in the Making

Forum Post, July, 04 2010 Mark Evans
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A proposed Script, in three parts, for a short introductory video to Project for a Partipatory Society - United Kingdom. It is intended as a voice-over for a video to be accompanied with background music as well as appropriate visual images.

Forum Post Albert: Re: Decisions, decisions....

Forum Post, July, 01 2010 Michael Albert
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> Somehow, although I don't claim to understand it, with Parecon, decisions can be made about jobs and remuneration by people who haven't actually done those jobs and received that remuneration for it.I believe you are correct that you don...

Forum Post Albert: Anarchist Remuneration Reply...

Forum Post, June, 30 2010 Michael Albert
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Replying to an Anarchist critic of parecon...

Forum Post Rodriguez: Re: Re: Re: Progressing Backwards

Forum Post, June, 27 2010 Paulo Rodriguez
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Dear Mark,I have to admit that your reply caught me completely off-guard, in a pleasant way. But more on that later.The three-kid analogy is a good one. It also reflects exactly what I felt before I took the time to inform myself by sites such as ...

Forum Post Rodriguez: Remembering Tomorrow - A lesson in humanity for the left

Forum Post, June, 26 2010 Paulo Rodriguez
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Review of a must-read book for all people claiming to be on the left and interested in alternatives to organizing.

Forum Post Rodriguez: Re: Progressing Backwards

Forum Post, June, 26 2010 Paulo Rodriguez
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Dear Mark,Trust me, if you think I'm not frustrated about many of the issues you have raised, guess again, I'm often as completely consumed with frustration as you are. However...I'm assuming that by "so-called progressives" you are talk...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Chavez and Iran

Forum Post, June, 26 2010 Michael Albert
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 HI Pervez,I think you may be surprised about the questions being welcomed. I will bet you a buck, and a trip to Pakistan for me so that you or I can pay off! The longer list of questions that that they have seen goes into more detail ab...

Forum Post Jauhiainen: Re: Re: Re: Chasing Chavez

Forum Post, June, 21 2010 Antti Jauhiainen
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 This weekly tv-show would seem like a possibility, on a quick glance. As Chavez is on air every sunday, it should be possible to devote one sunday for this rather remarkable interview, on the new international, participatory society and the ...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Chasing Chavez

Forum Post, June, 21 2010 Michael Albert
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Chavez has a Sunday five hour show - actually - it has no fixed time length, I think - that does diverse things - basically providing a way to communicate with the population in a context of media that is overwhelmingly hostile. Imagine Obama on f...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Chasing Chavez

Forum Post, June, 21 2010 Michael Albert
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> Do you ever wish you'd gone on that plane to Brazil?  Yes. But I am iffy about it - could be it would have led to a successful interview and resolution of the proposals. Could be it would have been a short interview - and that's all...

Forum Post Albert: Re: waiting game?

Forum Post, June, 20 2010 Michael Albert
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Yes, the length has been a serious issue, perhaps pivotal. When we talked briefly in Caracas Chavez was game to do it, very positive, but, having seen the questions, knew it would take many sessions - and hasn't been able to schedule that.On the f...

Forum Post Chrysostomou: waiting game?

Forum Post, June, 20 2010 Jason Chrysostomou
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would be a pity if these proposals didn't materialise. seem like very worthy ideas to me with enormous potential.with the interview, did chavez receive the questions and do you think that the questions could have put him off in someway? the length...

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Triumph of hope over experience -- for which side?

Forum Post, June, 19 2010 Stephen Roblin
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Let me first say that as an anti-capitalist I would love to reject cap-and-trade in favor of a carbon tax. But I can't for reasons touched on below...I don't think Hahnel's argument assumes that for cap-and-trade to reduce CO2 emissions we have to...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Alternative Interview Format

Forum Post, June, 19 2010 Michael Albert
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Yes, it is an option - and questions have been conveyed - but it prevents with discussing other possibilities and it also is more stiff with less followup and exploration. Mainly though, while Chavez has done many interviews, he has never done - t...

Forum Post Albert: Chasing Chavez

Forum Post, June, 18 2010 Michael Albert
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An account of a project involving Venezuela and an outline of questions for President Hugo Chavez

Forum Post Roblin: Alternative Interview Format

Forum Post, June, 18 2010 Stephen Roblin
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 Have you considered sending your questions to Chavez (or one of your contacts close to him) so that he can provide written responses? That way you could avoid trying to schedule a meeting time with him. Perhaps you could turn the interv...

Forum Post Roblin: Alternative Interview Format

Forum Post, June, 18 2010 Stephen Roblin
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 Have you considered sending your questions to Chavez (or one of your contacts close to him) so that he can provide written responses? That way you could avoid trying to schedule a meeting time with him. Perhaps you could turn the interv...

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