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Halimi: Less Isn't More
Znet Article, June, 03 2008
Serge Halimi
Halimi's ZSpace page
Life is getting harder for most people...
Simpson: The Free Market and Its Many Wonders
Blog Post, June, 03 2008
Bob Simpson
Simpson's ZSpace page
Is our "free market economy" really good for small business?
Vltchek: Hard Core Capitalist Indonesia And Awful Services
Commentary, May, 19 2008
Andre Vltchek
Vltchek's ZSpace page
During the Cold War, Eastern block countries used to be bombarded by radio broadcasts glorifying free-market economic system and consumerism. The message from the Radio Free Europe, Voice of America and BBC World Service had been clear: no matter ...
Bello: How to manufacture a global food crisis: lessons from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO
Znet Article, May, 17 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the culprit. Because of US government subsidies, American farmers were devot...
Early: Teamsters & Taxi Drivers
Znet Article, May, 11 2008
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
In the late 1990s, it looked, for a while, like organized labor was making a comeback...
Landau: Crises At Home
Commentary, May, 11 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
If you live in affluent neighborhoods you might have conditioned yourself to ignore the significant sector of US society that gets in your face by showing they're poor, suffering from disease and acute angst - if not worse.
Halimi: Speculate to Accumulate
Znet Article, May, 08 2008
Serge Halimi
Halimi's ZSpace page
The International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation promised that more trade would help to eradicate poverty and hunger. Foodcrops? Self-sufficiency in food? They had a better idea. Local farms would be closed down or encouraged to co...
Albert: Parecon and Aspirations
Commentary, May, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Leftists throughout the world today, and in all past times, have sought what are actually conceptually simple outcomes: each person should be as free as all others and as able to enjoy the fruits of labor and the virtues of social engagement in an...
Sklar: Tax Day Gifts for the Rich
Commentary, May, 02 2008
Holly Sklar
Sklar's ZSpace page
When it comes to cutting taxes for the wealthy, President Bush can truly say, "Mission accomplished."
Raina: Cricket as Surrogate Kill
Znet Article, April, 30 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Turn on any of India’s up-market corporate channels, and you will find therein but just one lead: the IPL, or the Indian Premier League of 20x20 cricket.
Baker: Developing the New "Capitalists' Man"
Znet Article, April, 28 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
In the wake of revolutions in Russia, China, Cuba, and elsewhere, there was talk of creating a new type of person with a socialist mindset. The idea was that people in the prerevolutionary capitalist societies had been educated to be individualist...
Albert: Situating Parecon: A Talk in Innsbruck Austria
Znet Article, April, 28 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
A Talk in Innsbruck Austria...
D'arcy: "War of Position": Anti-Capitalist Attrition as a Revolutionary Strategy for Non-Revolutionary Times
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Steve D'arcy
D'arcy's ZSpace page
In non-revolutionary times, a revolutionary strategy has to acknowledge the distance that separates the preparatory phase from the crisis phase of anti-capitalist struggle. In a preparatory period, that is, when revolution is not yet a foreseeable...
Albert: Parecon and Solidarity
Znet Article, April, 26 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Keynote Address at the All for One, One for All Conference, in Vienna Austria.
Albert: Pareconish Intellectual Agendas
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
New ideas have intellectual value largely in proportion to their impact on further new ideas beyond themselves. Does a new idea open doors or does it lead nowhere, sitting dormant?
Albert: Parecon and Strategy
Znet Article, April, 22 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The effort to win a new economy will obviously have a great many facets. In Moving Forward (AK Press) I discussed parecon related strategic issues in detail. A more recent book by Robin Hahnel, Economic Justice and Democracy, addresses parecon rel...
Albert: Parecon and Anarchism
Znet Article, April, 21 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Like most social movements, anarchism is diverse. Most broadly, an anarchist seeks out and identifies structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination throughout life, and tries to challenge them, as conditions and the pursuit of justice permit....
Albert: Parecon and Marxism
Znet Article, April, 20 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
My discussions of anarchism and particularly of Marxism are contentious and controversial. It has seemed that my past presentations of this material have often failed to communicate my actual thoughts. To correct misinterpretation, here I argue po...
Albert: Parecon and Science/Technology
Znet Article, April, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Like every label for a complex personal and social practice the word science is fuzzy at its edges making it hard for us to pin down what is and what isn’t science. Nonetheless, for our broad purposes, we can assert that science refers to an accum...
Lynd: Another World Is Possible
Znet Article, April, 19 2008
Staughton Lynd
Lynd's ZSpace page
The new worldwide movement against "globalization," meaning, U.S. imperialism, and for a better day, has come up with a defining slogan: Another World Is Possible...
