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Albert: Why Parecon?
Znet Article, September, 14 2006
Michael Albert
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Fifteen years ago, Robin Hahnel and I published a book titled Looking Forward. It was the first in-depth presentation of the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short. Of course Robin and I worked hard on parecon and rel...
Albert: Solidarity and Participatory Economics
Znet Article, September, 13 2006
Michael Albert
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Solidarity and Participatory Economics
Albert: Parecon and France
Znet Article, July, 23 2006
Michael Albert
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An economy has to produce goods and sevices that we then enjoy both for survival and pleasure. It also has to facilitate our getting those outputs of economic activity, which is to say, consumption. And between production and consumption comes wha...
Albert: Building A Pareconish Movement
Znet Article, May, 03 2006
Michael Albert
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{ This paper was prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These sessions g...
Albert: Parecon Today
Znet Article, April, 27 2006
Michael Albert
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1. Where did parecon come from? What is its history? Participatory economics, or parecon, came mainly from the cumulative struggles of diverse populations trying to win liberation from capitalism. Parecon owes, in particular, to the anarchist a...
Albert: What Is Revolution?
Commentary, April, 12 2006
Michael Albert
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Albert: Let's Take the Left Road
Znet Article, April, 06 2006
Michael Albert
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[The following was submitted as a paper/talk for the Seoul South Korea International Conference on Globalizing Social Transformation and Role of Alternative Media, March 31 - Apriul 1, 2006] The anti corporate globalization movement - the move...
Albert: Parecon and Journalism
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
Michael Albert
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The following is excerpted from the new book from Zed Press, Realizing Hope. See: http://www.zmag.org/realizinghope.html The idea of journalism is not overly complex. Societies involve huge ranges of activity and possibility. Each day events oc...
Albert: Still Uncomprehending...
Znet Article, March, 15 2006
Michael Albert
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Schweickart's reply to my reply gives me a gigantic mound o...
Albert: Critique Without Comprehension
Znet Article, February, 24 2006
Michael Albert
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For The review this essay replies to Please see Schweickart: Nonsense On Stilts Parecon Phe...
Albert: Olympic Parecon
Commentary, February, 19 2006
Michael Albert
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Is anyone else bemused by the media's coverage of America's purported sports stars of the Winter Olympics? Parents tell kids, over and over, it isn't whether you win or lose, but how you play the game that matters. Don't glorify victory. Don't dem...
Albert: Campus Concerns
Znet Article, February, 11 2006
Michael Albert
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Editors: What can we learn from movements on college campuses in the past? Albert: It is a very large question that can't be answered in anything but very broad strokes in a short interview. That said, I think we can learn quite a lot about organ...
Albert: Realize Some Hope
Commentary, February, 11 2006
Michael Albert
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Dear Fellow ZNet Sustainer,
Albert: Realizing Hope
Znet Article, February, 05 2006
Michael Albert
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1. Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Margartet Thatcher and every bully with a bomb shouts "TINA: There is No Alternative." Realizing Hope shouts b...
Albert: Introduction to Realizing Hope
Znet Article, February, 01 2006
Michael Albert
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The stupendously influential and celebrated British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote, “[Capitalism] is not a success. It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous - and it doesn't deliver the goods. In ...
Albert: Anti Capitalist Strategy
Znet Article, January, 26 2006
Michael Albert
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A viable and desirable strategy for transcending capitalism will certainly include leaving capitalism behind. Capitalism is despicable. It will also include, however, attaining something worthwhile in capitalism's place. What we win must be de...
Albert: Venezuela's Path
Znet Article, November, 06 2005
Michael Albert
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Going to Venezuela? There are beautiful waterfalls and mountains. There is rich surf, sand, and sun. But nowadays the biggest attraction is revolution. This October I spent a week in Caracas. That's not much information to work with but for what ...
Albert: Argentine Self Management
Znet Article, November, 03 2005
Michael Albert
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This October I spent a week in Buenos Aires, Argentina learning about Argentina's workers movement to recuperate factories. During the recent corporate globalization inspired economic downturns in Argentina, workers confronted disaster when their...
Albert: Parecon Interview on Leaving for Argentina
Commentary, October, 15 2005
Michael Albert
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[Press interview preparatory to arriving in Argentina for a trip there, to Venezuela, and Mexico, to learn about events unfolding throughout Latin America.]
Albert: Interview with Michael Albert
Znet Article, October, 10 2005
Michael Albert
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AttacD-AWWO: Can you say something about the process, the discussion that lead to Parecon (participatory economics) and the book that is now also appearing in German translation this fall? Michael Albert: Sure. It was a long process. It started o...
