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Novitch: The Warmth
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Misty Novitch
Novitch's ZSpace page
Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications
Suggett: Post-Sexist Society
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
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...
Raina: Commemorating T.K.Ramachandran
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Teekay, who was professor of English at Calicut university in Kerala, was more importantly one of the relentless critics of stultifying orthodoxy, including, most of all, with respect to India's Left parties and politics. Besides being erudite in...
Sandstrom: Re: Imagine and then Act
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Anders Sandstrom
Sandstrom's ZSpace page
Differences in how the Parecon institutions are received
Schmitt: What's a Socialist to Do?
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Richard Schmitt
Schmitt's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich & Fletcher tell socialists to go and organize. “We have to build organizations, including explicitly socialist ones, that can mobilize this talent, develop leadership and advance local struggles.†Generations of eloquent and courage...
Snow: Conscious Being Alliance
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Keith harmon Snow
Snow's ZSpace page
When we talk about “re-imagining society†it seems we need to first articulate the boundaries of such a project to mean re-imagining western society. I have a fantasy which, translated into action, might be synonymous with this. I call it a Co...
Spannos: Reimagining Social Services for a Participatory Society
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
On the surface it may seem a remarkable coincidence that the origins and future of social services are both intimately intertwined with Anarchism. However, it is less a surprise when one considers that each is based on mutual aid and compassion.
Wetzel: Anarchism, Class Struggle and Political Organization
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
This is an exploration of the perspectives of pro-organizational anarchists who have a class struggle perspective in the USA.
Purkayastha: The Need for a New Socialist Vision
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Prabir Purkayastha
Purkayastha's ZSpace page
Globally, the left has some common problems. It would be a partial view if we believe that the left scenario in any country is largely driven by its internal dynamics. In the age of global media and instant communication, the politics of the world...
Dangl: Common Ground
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
As the global economic crisis expands, a rapidly increasing number of people are seeking ways to combat unemployment, marginalization, corruption, repression and other problems. Such challenges have faced millions of Latin Americans for decades, a...
Martinez: Creating Education
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Raoul Martinez
Martinez's ZSpace page
A formal education system reveals much about the predominant values and goals of a society. The content and structure of the curriculum, school day, and examinations betray a vision of the kind of individual the system wishes to cultivate—reward...
Raptis: The Problem of Transportation
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
An interesting social test, easily performed by anybody, is the following: simply ask friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and even strangers what is their opinion about our life in 2009. Is it full of problems or is it a rather satisfactory and eve...
Martinez: A Moral Movement
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Raoul Martinez
Martinez's ZSpace page
In January of this year, horrified by the events unfolding in Gaza, and in response to an article defending Israel's actions written by a Messianic Jew and posted on the Facebook profile of a friend of mine, I wrote three articles
Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Mark Evans
Evans's ZSpace page
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.
Albert: Solidarity and Participatory Economics
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
There are a number of Solidarity Economy and of Parecon people participating in Resoc. I wonder if we can try to determine the relation of these perspectives, and the possibility for, well, solidarity! I wrote an essay some time back that I would ...
Cradden: Workplace Democracy and Markets?
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Conor Cradden
Cradden's ZSpace page
Many on the left are intuitively suspicious of positive forms of workplace democracy, in which workers have the right and duty to participate in decision-making about what will be done rather than the negative right merely to refuse to accept some...
Christini: Assembling the Future
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Tony Christini
Christini's ZSpace page
Nothing bests great vision and nothing accounts for great planning like the thing materialized.
Jensen: Life in a Dead Culture
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
When we seek the truth, we try to make sense of a chaotic world. We struggle to achieve what clarity is possible. When we look honestly, we face the cruelty of that truth. But the crucible, the most important test of our capacity to face the truth...
Ferguson: Labor, Love, Community and Democracy
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Ann Ferguson
Ferguson's ZSpace page
To think about a better world, we need to theorize a bit about what is possible, given human nature, as well as what is attainable, given human history.
Bauwens: Peer to Peer Economies
Forum Post, January, 12 2010
Michel Bauwens
Bauwens's ZSpace page
Peer-to-peer social processes are bottom-up processes whereby agents in a distributed network can freely engage in common pursuits, without external coercion, i.e. ‘permissionlessly’ undertake actions and relations. This requires not just ‘d...
