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Wilson: Disingenuous

Forum Post, June, 04 2013 James Wilson
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I'm a little sick up and fed with the use of the word bureaucracy or bureaucratic being used to describe aspects of Parecon. I think one, it is disingenuous and two, flat wrong. It seems people just like to use it to make it sound bad. Everyon...

Wilson:

Forum Post, May, 28 2013 James Wilson
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When I got to the bit on unpleasantness some immediate things came to mind, (then as you can see a torrent of questions just flowed). If one is to reorganize unpleasant tasks, how would this be done. By what process? Meetings? Of how many people? ...

James: Great read

Forum Post, February, 12 2013 Andrew James
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The book is great and allow for other frameworks to be implemented for example recently i was able to setup a system that allowed project management software web based rather than hosted locally, many businesses forget about working in t...

James: Re: Fantastic

Forum Post, January, 29 2013 Andrew James
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So, okay, think back to the stadium we are all in. We have arrived at our shared commitments. We elaborate them some and manage risk. We pledge to refine and develop them together. And we ask - how many are on board? A lot!

Albert: Re: What could enable a Peercommony

Forum Post, January, 16 2013 Michael Albert
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In many contexts a guaranteed minimum income, or atlernatively, what can be the same ting, excellent unemployment insurance and social welfare provisions, is a very good reform to fight for. But it is not a general norm for income distribution, no...

Reiter: What could enable a Peercommony

Forum Post, January, 16 2013 I.N. Reiter
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I must confess, I only flew over a few of the discussion pieces and won´t be able to do more than that for a certain time, but I think what many progressive and socially orientated people in Germany have in mind, when they talk about enablin...

Goodrich: Re: Re: Thanks

Forum Post, December, 28 2012 John Goodrich
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Hi M.M. On the normal state of humanity, I am going strictly by Kropotkin's studies of cooperation and mutual aid in social groupings which included humans at various stages in their hundred thousand years of existence. While it is possible t...

McGehee: Re: Thanks

Forum Post, December, 27 2012 Michael McGehee
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While I am skeptical of anyone talking about a "normal state" for humans, as if there is any scientific basis to make such a claim, the point, assuming for the sake of argument that it is true, is rather moot. If all it...

Goodrich: Thanks

Forum Post, December, 27 2012 John Goodrich
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Thanks Michael for a very good explanation of what parecon is and is not . Many of the questions you addressed seemed to deal with the thinking that humans are inherently greedy and sociopathic . This thinking permeates right into progressi...

Isaacs: I like this summary

Forum Post, December, 01 2012 Joel Isaacs
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Hi Michael, You alluded to this point and I would like to emphasize it. In a pareconish economy, whenever one person or group develops or discovers ways to do a task or produce something more effectively, more easily, or less expensively, then ALL...

Owens: Thank you

Forum Post, November, 02 2012 Sarah Owens
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Thank you (twice) for posting this summary. Those of us organizing the North American tour especially appreciate your taking the time. It prompts many questions and a desire for details that I'm quite sure you don't have tim...

Ji: Re: Re: Re: barriers to building inclusive movements

Forum Post, September, 23 2012 Swaraj Ji
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Your own article starts by quoting Malcolm X as saying that "white activists would be more useful, and their involvement in the struggle for change most effective, if it began within their communities, instead of them ‘hovering' nea...

Pierce: Re: Authenticating

Forum Post, August, 25 2012 Dylan Pierce
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Alternative societies still face some of the very same challenges and realities that the dominant society/culture faces -- but needs to respond to them differently. I'd like to know the answer to the question you posed too.

Jones: Fantastic

Forum Post, May, 21 2012 Chris Jones
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I just love this piece. Have just spent much of the day wondering why so many of our friends in Samos are so fearful about taking action and so pessimistic about what we can achieve together. Then I read this. It speaks so strongly to what ...

Adamcik: Escort this sick person out!

Forum Post, May, 19 2012 David Adamcik
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You have to be a sustainer to comment on this. You became a sustainer to trash the site? The least you could do is to come up with an articulate argument against the Parecon proposal.

Adamcik: Good Article

Forum Post, May, 18 2012 David Adamcik
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We are on our way there. We just need some positive examples of non-authoritarian workplaces, schools and housing communities. We need more people with these views talking to each another.

Adamcik: Suggestion

Forum Post, May, 16 2012 David Adamcik
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Just a note because this looks like it is an important document. In the first of the "views" section of capitalism: I think you should take off the "in" in the second sentence after "consume."

Goodrich: Re: Re: new research, I think might support parecon idea

Forum Post, April, 22 2012 John Goodrich
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I recently read Pyotr Kropotkin's: " Mutual Aid : A Factor Of Evolution and he went chapter after chapter from insects to humanity from the beginning of our emergence on what the title implies. His research shoots down the dog-eat-...

Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Communal Income'

Forum Post, April, 18 2012 Michael Albert
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Bill, You say that, "I think it's only reasonable to suggest that many people will enter into such arrangements under parecon and will in fact have to." If I am right, you mean people choosing to collectively consume ...

Clark: Re: Re: Re: 'Communal Income'

Forum Post, April, 17 2012 Bill Clark
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Hi Michael. I wasn't suggesting that what I was attempting to describe or explain was contrary to parecon. But it is a scenario that circumvents the ill thought protestations of the article you were focussed on and an approach I used on anoth...

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