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Forum Post Administrator: Re: Questions and Suggestions as to Parecon and means of implementation

Forum Post, October, 03 2011 Site Administrator
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Hi...a bit of clarification. This, and much that you tend to enter, are not comments. It is great you are thinking, exploring, etc. And if you want to write about your thoughts, as you go, okay, do so, but in a blog post. Then people will read ...

Forum Post Phreed: Questions and Suggestions as to Parecon and means of implementation

Forum Post, October, 03 2011 Rhuen Phreed
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Hello Michael, I wanted to follow up a bit as to my slow, but progressing, understanding of Parecon. Have had some difficulty in learning how to navigate efficiently, the Zcommunication site, probably because I might be accustomed to changes...

Forum Post Albert: Hello?

Forum Post, October, 01 2011 Michael Albert
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This is an interview fielding questions from various members of the Spanish CNT...I think the largest anarchist organization in the world, and certainly one with an incredible heritage. The questions are very interesting and insightful I think......

Forum Post Marty: Re: Re: Re: Quick question

Forum Post, September, 30 2011 David Marty
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The strike was organized by skilled artisans who complained about nit receiving their incime, which consisted mostly of grains and fruits. The reason being that certain grandiose constructions by Ramssesses III and a high level of corruption left ...

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Quick question

Forum Post, September, 30 2011 Stephen Roblin
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This is what I found: http://marie-parsons.suite101.com/egyptian-artisans-strike-a172998 Romer, J. (1984) Ancient Lives: Daily Life in Egypt of the Pharaohs. Holt, Rinehart & Winston http://www.modernegypt.info/one-hundred-facts-about-egypt/...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Quick question

Forum Post, September, 30 2011 Michael Albert
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Actually, a guide told us about this, on a tour, quite a few years back. He said the Pharaoh at the time, a woman, the only one I think - decided that having the slaves work on stuff six days a week, and with time off to eat, wasn't sufficient...

Forum Post Roblin: Quick question

Forum Post, September, 30 2011 Stephen Roblin
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"first recorded workers strike in Egypt, during the Pharaohs’ time." I'm unaware of this history.  Do you know of any authors/books that describe it?

Forum Post Dominick: Re:

Forum Post, September, 04 2011 Brian Dominick
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I joke about that little segment in Part II which should get posted soon ;)

Forum Post Wright: Responding to critics

Forum Post, August, 31 2011 Patrick Wright
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Michael, I think it is admirable how you have responded to these critics but I worry that this will become a full time job.  As I read this stuff I keep thinking about how much it sounds like the local city council dramas regarding wheth...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Focusing on the right issues

Forum Post, August, 31 2011 Michael Albert
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> I think that both Marxists and anarchists should be able to seriously consider parecon as a possible long-term vision.  But they don’t seem to be able to and I wonder why.  My thinking is that it is not just to do with parecon...

Forum Post Evans: Re: Re: Re: Re: Focusing on the right issues

Forum Post, August, 30 2011 Mark Evans
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I think that both Marxists and anarchists should be able to seriously consider parecon as a possible long-term vision.  But they don’t seem to be able to and I wonder why.  My thinking is that it is not just to do with parecon, the...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Focusing on the right issues

Forum Post, August, 30 2011 Michael Albert
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> ...it must be difficult for anarchists and Marxists to read parecon, and to engage with it rationally, whilst at the same time trying to maintain their identity.  It is probably impossible, which might explain what is going on here - I d...

Forum Post Evans: Re: Re: Focusing on the right issues

Forum Post, August, 30 2011 Mark Evans
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Michael - I didn’t want my comment to sound like I was being critical of you for engaging with these people.  I actually feel the opposite!  Hats-off to you for engaging like this - it is very rare that a leading left thinker engag...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: a couple of limited comments

Forum Post, August, 29 2011 Michael Albert
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These exchanges get to long, so fast…    >> Mike: "Suppose I said, I want to divide up all work so that 20% has almost all the empowering work and 80% virtually none. How could I do that. Om the face of it, is is ...

Forum Post Wittke: Re: The Drop-Back-In Option

Forum Post, August, 29 2011 Trevor Wittke
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  >> What I will say to this is, that when a certain safety net of wealth production and related privilege is gauranteed it is not very onerous to opt out of the industrialised society and engage in primitivist ideas. Real, material...

Forum Post Leask: Re: Re: a couple of limited comments

Forum Post, August, 28 2011 Bernard Leask
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Hello, Mike: "Suppose I said, I want to divide up all work so that 20% has almost all the empowering work and 80% virtually none. How could I do that. Om the face of it, is is using a different norm than parecon, a different guideline, y...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Focusing on the right issues

Forum Post, August, 27 2011 Michael Albert
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Hi Mark - well said, and I agree on all counts, of course.  But the thing is, when people say x, even if I don't think x is particularly on the mark of what is crtiically important, answering x is often necessary to discuss further becau...

Forum Post Albert: Re: a couple of limited comments

Forum Post, August, 27 2011 Michael Albert
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Hi,   > About the charge that Parecon is neoclassical I think that indeed if you look superficially at the entire Parecon canon there are some instances where terms and even conceptions that pervasive in neoclassical economics have b...

Forum Post Evans: Focusing on the right issues

Forum Post, August, 27 2011 Mark Evans
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This really is a mystery to me.  The debate over whether Michael, or anyone else for that matter, is or is not an anarchist is probably the best (and saddest) example of revolutionaries focusing on the wrong topic.  It is a complete wast...

Forum Post Leask: a couple of limited comments

Forum Post, August, 27 2011 Bernard Leask
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I only have time for only a couple of limited comments. I have often found myself disappointed with the criticisms of Parecon that appear on some of the anarchist websites because they are so often hastily dismissive and agressive and rarely ever...

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