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Znet Article Halimi: Less Isn't More

Znet Article, June, 03 2008 Serge Halimi
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Life is getting harder for most people...

Blog Post Simpson: The Free Market and Its Many Wonders

Blog Post, June, 03 2008 Bob Simpson
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Is our "free market economy" really good for small business?

Commentary Vltchek: Hard Core Capitalist Indonesia And Awful Services

Commentary, May, 19 2008 Andre Vltchek
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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 ...

Znet Article Bello: How to manufacture a global food crisis: lessons from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO

Znet Article, May, 17 2008 Walden Bello
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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...

Znet Article Early: Teamsters & Taxi Drivers

Znet Article, May, 11 2008 Steve Early
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In the late 1990s, it looked, for a while, like organized labor was making a comeback...

Commentary Landau: Crises At Home

Commentary, May, 11 2008 Saul Landau
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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.

Znet Article Halimi: Speculate to Accumulate

Znet Article, May, 08 2008 Serge Halimi
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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...

Commentary Albert: Parecon and Aspirations

Commentary, May, 04 2008 Michael Albert
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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...

Commentary Sklar: Tax Day Gifts for the Rich

Commentary, May, 02 2008 Holly Sklar
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When it comes to cutting taxes for the wealthy, President Bush can truly say, "Mission accomplished."

Znet Article Raina: Cricket as Surrogate Kill

Znet Article, April, 30 2008 Badri Raina
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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.

Znet Article Baker: Developing the New "Capitalists' Man"

Znet Article, April, 28 2008 Dean Baker
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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...

Znet Article Albert: Situating Parecon: A Talk in Innsbruck Austria

Znet Article, April, 28 2008 Michael Albert
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A Talk in Innsbruck Austria...

Znet Article D'arcy: "War of Position": Anti-Capitalist Attrition as a Revolutionary Strategy for Non-Revolutionary Times

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Steve D'arcy
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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...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Solidarity

Znet Article, April, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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Keynote Address at the All for One, One for All Conference, in Vienna Austria.

Znet Article Albert: Pareconish Intellectual Agendas

Znet Article, April, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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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?

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Strategy

Znet Article, April, 22 2008 Michael Albert
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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...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Anarchism

Znet Article, April, 21 2008 Michael Albert
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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....

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Marxism

Znet Article, April, 20 2008 Michael Albert
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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...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Science/Technology

Znet Article, April, 19 2008 Michael Albert
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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...

Znet Article Lynd: Another World Is Possible

Znet Article, April, 19 2008 Staughton Lynd
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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...

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