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Sandstrom: The next steps for IOPS
Forum Post, January, 17 2011
Anders Sandstrom
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What should be the next steps for IOPS?
Chrysostomou: regional support
Forum Post, January, 17 2011
Jason Chrysostomou
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Hi Anders "Talking from own experience it is very hard to get things going when you are only a handful of people in a country devoted to parecon/parsoc. Having access to regional resources would help immensely, not least by increasing motiva...
Chrysostomou: Re: Re: participatory political party
Forum Post, January, 15 2011
Jason Chrysostomou
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I'd also support the idea of forming a participatory socialist political party as one strategic approach towards winning revolutionary political change that could be consistent with our values if it was implemented in the way you are proposing...
D'Arcy: Thoughts on the Future of IOPS
Forum Post, January, 10 2011
Steve D'Arcy
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I have a few thoughts about the future of the project for creating an IOPS (International Organization for a Participatory Society). 1. A Network. First, I believe we should think of IOPS as a network for facilitating the sharing of information, ...
Evans: Re: participatory political party
Forum Post, January, 10 2011
Mark Evans
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Hi Matt - your suggestion for the formation of a ParSoc political party seems in-keeping with John’s position that - “It should also take a flexible approach to strategy, realizing that different contexts and circumstances call for dif...
Albert: Re: Diversity for Survival
Forum Post, January, 05 2011
Michael Albert
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I will see if I can work it in - sure. Thanks.
Albert: Re: Nature of Values?
Forum Post, December, 28 2010
Michael Albert
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I'll see what I can do about fixing up that values definition issue, when I can get back to working on the actual chapters - thanks for noticing it! Amd very glad you liked the rest.
Evans: Nature of Values?
Forum Post, December, 27 2010
Mark Evans
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Sorry about the slow reply - Im wondering if you might say something at the beginning of this chapter about the nature of values. Later on in the chapter you say - “Again, this is a value - not a factual question” - implying tha...
Albert: Re:
Forum Post, December, 26 2010
Michael Albert
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Hi - sorry it took so long to get back in touch. Dealing with eye recuperation - and it is interfering... > There are two separate notions made: 1) institutions can restrict diversity of options and paths different individual...
Albert: Chapter Seven - Visionary Values
Forum Post, December, 16 2010
Michael Albert
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A first draft of a chapter of the book in progress - Fanfare for the Future - for discussion on ZNet and in the ZGroup, HelpAlbert
D'Arcy: Re: Re: Re: PPS-US?
Forum Post, December, 08 2010
Steve D'Arcy
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Hi Emma, Having once (many years ago) been a member of a (non-PPS) organization with a similar rationale for pursuing the aim of "unity in action" and internal consensus about issues of "program" (vision and strategy), I ...
Evans: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PPS-US?
Forum Post, December, 07 2010
Mark Evans
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Emma - although Im still not entirely clear on the strategy / tactics issue and how this relates to self-management I agree with virtually everything you say, which makes me wonder EVEN MORE why we are in different organisations. One possibl...
Albert: Re: two quick things
Forum Post, December, 07 2010
Michael Albert
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Hi Lonnie, I will think about moving it, but wait until more is done to decide. I think perhaps it seems easy to read because it isn't first...
Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Chapter Six: Negativity Won’t Pull You Through
Forum Post, December, 06 2010
Michael Albert
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Chris, I agree with you that believing there is no alternative is, itself, a deadly downer...sure, that's why the view is so pounded into people. > But, my additional point is that the TINA-factor in her outlook is a...
Albert: Re: Negitive Feedback on Negativity Won’t Pull You Through
Forum Post, December, 06 2010
Michael Albert
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Mark, high, > “being motivated at all” - is this accurate? Will fix. > “collectively getting somewhere desirable” - or we might say that vision helps overcome sectarianism whic...
Albert: Re: Good chapter
Forum Post, December, 06 2010
Michael Albert
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Thanks Daniel - I hope it works as well for others as for you! On the definition of institutions, I think that is in earlier chapters - but I will check, and perhaps repeat a bit, somehow, to avoid any confusion.
Tarver: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PPS-US?
Forum Post, December, 05 2010
Emma Tarver
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Oh, and one other thing that may further clarify why OFS is not the same as OPS. In your last post you quoted me saying- ¨Well, if Oakland OPS takes up arms, that will absolutely affect the public perception of the org...
Tarver: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PPS-US?
Forum Post, December, 04 2010
Emma Tarver
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"Im confused. You insist on “strategic unity” but seem happy with diversity of tactics. Im afraid you will need to explain what the difference is between strategy and tactics." A tactic is a specific action used ...
Evans: Re: Re: Brilliant
Forum Post, December, 04 2010
Mark Evans
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Michael - Id be interested in having a go at writing a piece for Chapter four. As I work for the National Health Service I was thinking maybe something on that - what do you think? Maybe you would give us a bit more guidance on what you hope for...
Evans: Negitive Feedback on Negativity Won’t Pull You Through
Forum Post, December, 04 2010
Mark Evans
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Okay Michael - here is my feedback. “Well, our claim is that social change activists should heed that advisory and even arrive at that insight themselves because having a shared vision of at least the defining features of what we are...


