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Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Here is the first question and answer from a long recently completed but as yet unpublished interview of Michael Albert by Barbara Ehrenreich. The rest will follow, day by day... Ehrenreich: I have heard that there's been a lot of interest around...
Albert: Gloves off, Clarified
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The point isn't that everyone should cease analyzing existing relations and only develop vision and strategy. To propose that would take us from one imbalance to another. The point is that our overall attention to these different tasks needs to ...
Albert: Interview
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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In the same spirit as the last message -- this is an interview done for a major Pakistani periodical and for translation to Urdu, as well...again on parecon, and other matters too... 1. What has been the attitude and role of American civil socie...
Albert: Article for Polish Periodical
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I was recently asked for an article on parecon for a prominent Polish periodical of the left, and sent what follows. It is a bit long, an adaptation of earlier essays. I thought I would put it here though -- this kind of thing is happening quite a...
Albert: Parecon and Visionary Practice
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
(An excerpt from the introduction to Parecon: Life After Capitalism...In today’s world large movements espousing similar aspirations struggle worldwide to better the lives of disenfranchised and abused populations around the globe. Some unde...
Albert: Gloves Off
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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I guess I am all out of patience and running dry on civility as well. Is it unreasonable to want to know where the left stands regarding capitalism and “other worlds”? Are various movements, institutions, media outlets, and constituencies anti-c...
Albert: Organizing an Organization
Blog Post, March, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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Back in early 2003 ZNet hosted a call called the We Stand for Peace and Justice statement and site. In a period of just a few weeks, a little over 100,000 people signed the statement. At the time, it was a protest against on-coming war. I have be...
Albert: Lightweight Library
Blog Post, March, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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What political/social readings – not so well known – would I recommend for someone with a small carrying case? I get asked that pretty often. Here are a few: Wilhelm Reich had a very productive and insightful period, followed by devolution into i...
Albert: The Election
Blog Post, March, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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Many people seem to think that what candidates say bears dramatically on what they will do. That is only superficially the case unless they make public promises to constituencies that remain powerful during the ensuing administration and to which ...
Albert: Routes To Economic Vision: Efficiency
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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When you hear the word “efficiency” do you get aggressive, expecting a conservative onslaught that you will have to battle against? I do. By this time it is a reflex, even if not always warranted. The reason isn't because efficiency is a bad thing...
Albert: Promoting Parecon, the Paperback
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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In a couple of weeks the paperback edition of Parecon: Life After Capitalism, will come off the press in England (Verso being the publisher). I imagine books will be available there and in the U.S. two or three weeks later. Verso has no real mea...
Albert: Canadian Parecon Advocacy Group
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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I recently received the following message to the ZNet forum system from Matt Grinder who is a physics student at, I think, the University of British Colombia in Canada. He writes: “A presentation on Participatory Economics we (the vancouver paer...
Albert: Routes To Economic Vision: Sustainability
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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What is sustainability? This is a bit tricky, I think. Presumably it means operating in a fashion that is not self destructive. Regarding ecology, in other words, it means operating so that one isn't precluding continued operations in a similar ma...
Albert: Routes To Economic Vision: Classism
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Historically, a frequent route to trying to describe a better society is to demand classlessness. Classes are groups who share sufficient conditions and circumstances due to their economic position that they have broadly similar interests and mo...
Albert: Korean Parecon
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Yesterday I received in the mail the Korean edition of the book Parecon: Life After Capitalism. It is very elegant looking, but of course I couldn't read a word. If there is anyone out there from Korea who gets a copy of the book and reads through...
Albert: Routes to Economic Vision: Criminality
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Economies can have theft, fraud, etc. What would it mean to say we would like to have an economy that minimizes the likelihood of such occurrences? Well, the first possible meaning might be that we want an economy that has the death penalty for ...
Albert: Advocating Parecon: An Organization
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
What about creating an organization of pareconists, so to speak? I don't know whether this would be positive if it were it to grow to considerable size, nor even whether it would grow at all, for that matter. So this is an idea that pounds away in...
Albert: Introducing Parecon
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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It has quickly become clear that this blog needs some introduction to participatory economics...as well as including an accumulating array of posts that more or less presume at least modest familiarity. The following essay was written as the firs...
Albert: Advocating Parecon: Promotion
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
One possible topic for a parecon blog is how to best advocate participatory economics and what experiences we have and lessons we learn in doing so. My own efforts at advocating parecon have been only modestly successful. They involve ... My own...
Albert: Routes to Economic Vision: Alienation
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Decades ago I came across a compelling definition of alienation, a concept not so easy to pin down even for those who use the word a lot. After all, how do you simultaneously capture psychological, sociological, economic, and other connotations? ...
