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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Albert: Addressing More Concerns
Blog Post, August, 25 2011
Michael Albert
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Replying to various anarchist comments and concerns raised online...
Weber:
Forum Post, August, 24 2011
Mark Weber
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Very entertaining. (as Homer Simpson says, it's funny because it's true). But...is capitalism even the most efficient way to manufacture the most crap using the least inputs? When an enormous output of crap is needed, such as in a big war, don't...
Albert: An Interview on Participatory Economics and the State of Z Communications
Znet Article, August, 23 2011
Michael Albert
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An Interview on Participatory Economics and the State of Z Communications
Dominick: Awesomism
Video, August, 21 2011
Brian Dominick
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A realistic economics professor schools her naive, idealistic pupil on how awesome capitalism is compared to participatory socialism
Evans: Re: Re: Re: Re: Historical Materialism
Forum Post, August, 16 2011
Mark Evans
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The account of historical materialism that you give (the Engels quote, your comments generally, and your last paragraph) is basically the same as I understand it, so I don’t think that we have any disagreement there. Where it seems we ...
N: Re: Re: Re: Historical Materialism
Forum Post, August, 15 2011
Andrew N
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Hi Mark, Apologies - I tried to italise your comments above and my reply but it didn't seem to work. Although I'm sure you can make out the bits you said from the bits I said.
N: Re: Re: Historical Materialism
Forum Post, August, 15 2011
Andrew N
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Hello Andrew and thanks for taking the time to reply. A pleasure! This interview was undertaken by the New Left Project and was initially published on their website. That is where you will also find the reply article from a pro-Leninist position...
Evans: Re: Historical Materialism
Forum Post, August, 09 2011
Mark Evans
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Hello Andrew and thanks for taking the time to reply. This interview was undertaken by the New Left Project and was initially published on their website. That is where you will also find the reply article from a pro-Leninist position. ...
Neeson: Historical Materialism
Forum Post, August, 09 2011
Andrew Neeson
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“A key aspect of Marxism is the philosophical position of historical materialism which places particular emphasis on economic activity as a driving force for social dynamics and explanation for historical continuity and change. To my mind ...
