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Albert: Summarizing Participatory Economics
Znet Article, August, 26 2008
Michael Albert
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The task of developing a vision for any sphere of social life is to set out the functions the domain must accomplish, the values we hold dear, and the institutions that can accomplish the functions while propelling the values.
Albert: Exploring Libertarian Municipalism and Parecon...
Znet Article, August, 26 2008
Michael Albert
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In early November, 1999, ZNet posted an article by Michael Albert entitled Assessing Libertarian Municipalism. This page is devoted to discussion of that article. It includes messages received and rejoinders and explorations that ensued, as best w...
Albert: Exploring Libertarian Municipalism and Parecon...
Znet Article, August, 26 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In early November, 1999, ZNet posted an article by Michael Albert entitled Assessing Libertarian Municipalism. This page is devoted to discussion of that article. It includes messages received and rejoinders and explorations that ensued, as best w...
Albert: Exploring Libertarian Municipalism and Parecon...
Znet Article, August, 26 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In early November, 1999, ZNet posted an article by Michael Albert entitled Assessing Libertarian Municipalism. This page is devoted to discussion of that article. It includes messages received and rejoinders and explorations that ensued, as best w...
Albert: Assessing Libertarian Municipalism
Znet Article, August, 26 2008
Michael Albert
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On a recent speaking tour to Montreal (1999) a number of folks asked me my reactions to Libertarian Municipalism-a vision for politics emanating from the "School of Social Ecology." Others put it to me more specifically: How did I react to the rej...
Albert: Replying to Mandell and Finger
Znet Article, August, 26 2008
Michael Albert
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Am I somehow soft on Centrally Planned Socialism? Let me reassure Mandell: I am not. I abhor it. On the other hand, there is no point decrying this economic structure because it can exist intertwined with and supporting a grotesque political dicta...
Albert: Is Socialism Still on the Agenda?
Znet Article, August, 26 2008
Michael Albert
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To answer the title question, I have to provide answers for three possible meanings of "socialism" and also for a semantic issue, the use of the word "socialism," in any form.
Albert: Reply to Horowitz 4
Znet Article, August, 25 2008
Michael Albert
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I can understand being busy, I have that problem too... When you want to stop our exchange, however, you will have to stop writing content. As long as you reply with new points, I will reply in turn. It is my habit, and I type quickly.
Albert: Reply to Horowitz 3
Znet Article, August, 25 2008
Michael Albert
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You say "Socialism doesn't work first because you can't substitute politics (plans) for the market and get anything like a rational allocation of resources..."
Albert: Albert Replies Anew
Znet Article, August, 25 2008
Michael Albert
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Let's assume all your assertions about the Soviet economy circa 1980 are precisely correct. To have bearing on what I argued about centrally planned socialism's capacity to accomplish material development despite its other drawbacks, you would hav...
Albert: Albert Replies to Horowitz
Znet Article, August, 25 2008
Michael Albert
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The essay Horowitz is referring to is titled "Is Socialism Still on the Agenda?" It was written on request for the magazine New Politics and is available online at http://zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/18547 As part of a larger argument, th...
Albert: Replying to Hitchens
Znet Article, August, 25 2008
Michael Albert
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I have gotten a lot of mail asking me to react to Christopher Hitchens comments in the Nation magazine and on the Nation website. I am loathe to do so because I fear that considerable energies of wonderful people will go into worrying about precis...
Shalom: Conspiracies Or Institutions: 9-11 and Beyond
Znet Article, August, 20 2008
Stephen1 Shalom
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The most common definition of a conspiracy is two or more people secretly planning a criminal act. Examples of related conspiracy theories include belief that JFK was assassinated by rogue CIA elements attempting to ward off unwanted liberalism; t...
Albert: Which Way?
Znet Article, August, 04 2008
Michael Albert
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Interview focusing on Venezuela and ZNet...
Albert: Real Utopia Blue Stockings Bookstore Event Pt. 3
Video, August, 01 2008
Michael Albert
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Blue Stockings Bookstore, NYC...
Albert: Real Utopia Blue Stockings Bookstore Event Pt. 2
Video, July, 31 2008
Michael Albert
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Blue Stockings Bookstore NYC...
Albert: Real Utopia Blue Stockings Bookstore Event Pt. 1
Video, July, 30 2008
Michael Albert
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Gathering at Blue Stockings Bookstore NYC.
Albert: Which Way Venezuela?
Znet Article, July, 23 2008
Michael Albert
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Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is exciting and exemplary, yet few people know much about where Venezuela is headed. Misrepresentations abound. Data is limited and people interpret it in contrary ways. Information deficit plus skewed interpretat...
Albert: Black Like Who?
Znet Article, July, 08 2008
Michael Albert
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Religion has had a lot do with cultural politics throughout history, as it does today. My own religious encounters weren’t particularly significant in my life, save for two. I am Jewish, just barely, I guess. I went to Jewish Sunday school until m...
Albert: The Action Faction
Znet Article, July, 02 2008
Michael Albert
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On one trip across country, after graduating from MIT, I arrived in Seattle with my MIT friends Peter Bohmer and George Katsiaficas. There we met a group that called itself the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF). These guys had gone to Seattle in 1970...
