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Podur: The Referendum Will Not Be Televised -- or, hello from Venezuela
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Greetings from Venezuela. I am not sure how much blogging I will be able to do, or what I will be blogging about. But I am in Venezuela, and I am here to cover the referendum for ZNet, and so I am glad that blogging can be a part of that. More l...
Podur: The Referendum Will Not Be Televised -- or, hello from Venezuela
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Greetings from Venezuela. I am not sure how much blogging I will be able to do, or what I will be blogging about. But I am in Venezuela, and I am here to cover the referendum for ZNet, and so I am glad that blogging can be a part of that. More l...
Chomsky: Refuting Horowitz and Collier
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
To refute the criticisms[...] is trivial, and worth doing for only one reason. It teaches us something important: by even bothering to refute the criticisms, we are granting the critics a great gift, exactly what they want, and are falling into a ...
Peterson: War-Era Mass Grave Found Near Sarajevo
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Okay. Last Saturday's Chicago Tribune (Aug. 7) published a Getty/AFP photo by Elvis Barukcic on the upper-lefthand corner of Sect. 1, p. 3, along with the following caption: War-era mass grave found near Sarajevo A forensic expert collects human r...
Chomsky: Moral Truisms
Blog Post, August, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
There is no doubt that people have moral intuitions, and research -- serious research is in very early stages -- reveals that they are quite uniform without experience in complex situations, and in many ways surprising. There is little reason t...
Chomsky: Controlling the Middle East
Blog Post, August, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Controlling the region means being in a position to have a significant effect of decisions that are taken there, particularly with regard to production levels, price range (not to high, not too low), distribution (e.g., where pipelines go), etc. N...
Dominick: The Old Blogs are Dead -- Long Live the New ZNet Blog!
Blog Post, August, 06 2004
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
I don't even want to begin explaining the nightmare I went to trying to fix the blog system, and then when that failed, trying to configure this new system to handle our special needs. But, alas, here it is -- an all new ZNet Blog powered by the...
Albert: DNC Speech
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I got an email asking if I could write up a on eminute speech for the DNC -- what I would say on prime time. The request is very odd, but here is what I jotted off...probably would take a bit more than a minute though, to deliver... Given that th...
Albert: Thought Dreams -- The Book...
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Arbeiter Ring Pre4ss has just released (and I just received through the mail) Thought Dreams: Radical Theory for the Twenty First Century, a new book of mine. Thought Dreams, the book, is my best effort to take an audience, starting from scratch...
Albert: Worrying About Terror
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I actually think there is some reason to worry that there will be a terrorist attack between now and the election. Not because the government says so, of course. They haven't got a clue. But because from the perspective of bin Laden and co., it ma...
Albert: Inquiries
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Recently many people are asking why did the U.S. government ignore various indicators leading up to 9/11 that perhaps something horrible would happen if there weren't changes in U.S. policies. Okay…I suppose it isn't an entirely unreasonable quest...
Albert: Beyond Capitalism
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I have been asked for a short essay for a book that will appear at the ESF, this October. I have to rush it...and here is a draft. Anyone who wants to send me any suggestions, please feel free. But the commenting system is down. Beyond Capitalis...
Albert: Soc Student…Last
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
> I can't help but wonder whether any system can survive if it is too complex for the general public to understand. Is this serous? Parecon has a few key institutions and concepts, which a junior high school student could easily understand. To ...
Albert: Soc student…Sixth
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
> In his model, Albert argues for balanced job complexes instead of a labor market. Balanced job complexes replace corporate division of labor – not labor markets. Hiring and also firing of workers is not a market exchange because the terms are ...
Albert: Soc Student…fifth
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
> 1. Ease of Communicating the Parecon Model to Others – Personally, I find that a major obstacle to many reforms is the inability to plainly summarize the proposed reform and the rationale for implementing it (i.e. as if one is organizing behind ...
Albert: Soc – Fourth Student
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The fourth student likes the ideas that, First, “participatory consumers must weigh the benefits of consumption requests against the sacrifices required to produce them.” Second, “participatory consumers must distinguish reasonable consumption req...
Albert: Soc 292 - The Third Student
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Hmmmmm…these student comments are a bit longer than I anticipated…also a bit less in touch with the actual characteristics of parecon…but I started so I guess I will continue, though a bit more summarily than I had hoped, given these attributes. ...
Albert: Soc 292 - The Second Student
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The second student worries about parecon's method of allocation. > For the purposes of making decision about allocation, Albert advocates 'decentralized participatory planning' (p. 122), in which members of a parecon, in their respective capacit...
Albert: Soc 292: Parecon Comments
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In perusing the internet I found a pdf of comments by students, I think, of a sociology course (292) that used parecon for a reading. I thought I might briefly react to its contents in a few blog posts. The first student, after indicating his bro...
Albert: The World and the US
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Recently on a number of occasions I have told people asking about how parecon the book and of course the model was doing, that it was an odd situation In the U.S., I have replied, while there is a lot of progress being made, especially as compare...
