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Albert: What's Napster'and Freenet?
Zmag Article, September, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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The New York Times business pages have lately featured reports of a music industry crisis. Many leftists don’t read these pages, but this is big news for everyone, perhaps especially for the left. Napster Napster is a computer p...
Albert: Lesser Evil?
Commentary, August, 21 2000
Michael Albert
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The general anti-Nader argument is very simple. To vote/work for Nader means not voting/working for Gore. That's uncontestable. In states with close Gore/Bush ratings, Gore could lose enough votes to Nader for Bush to win the state, and ultimately...
Albert: Anarchism Today
Commentary, August, 07 2000
Michael Albert
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In lieu of attending the North American Anarchist Conference (NAAC), I was asked: Òwhat do you think of anarchism as an existing and potential ideology and movement?Ó Well, I think if anarchism were an ecology, it would be a tropical rain forest--...
Albert: Class, Race, Sex?!
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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Toward the end of the 1960s, Marxism climbed into the left’s ideological saddle. Left thought elevated economics. Class became paramount. Imperialism became the reigning enemy. Astute activists felt that the plight of the ghettoes, the sex life of...
Albert: Participatory Economic Program
Commentary, April, 16 2000
Michael Albert
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Participatory economics is a set of institutions for accomplishing production, consumption, and allocation while meeting peopleÕs needs and furthering their development; is a set of institutions designed to propel equity, solidarity, diversity, an...
Albert: Economics and the Rest Of Society
Commentary, April, 02 2000
Michael Albert
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A Participatory Economy produces, consumes, and allocates to meet peopleÕs needs and develop their capacities. It also promotes equity, solidarity, diversity, and self-management. Its central features are workersÕ and consumersÕ councils, remunera...
Albert: A Program Seeking Participatory Allocation
Commentary, March, 26 2000
Michael Albert
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Participatory planning is the allocation component of participatory economics. Producers and consumers organized in councils cooperatively negotiate labor, resource, and output allocations. The procedure organizes economic choices and simultaneous...
Albert: Vision Matters
Commentary, March, 19 2000
Michael Albert
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So far I have sent out an economic vision and strategy commentary each of the past eight Sundays. I assumed we would quickly agree that we don't have but that we do very much need a shared economic vision, and that to get one we need to collective...
Albert: Participatory Allocation
Commentary, March, 12 2000
Michael Albert
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An economy needs some procedure for coordinating different workers' activities with one another and with the desires of consumers. The procedure, called economic allocation, determines how much of each input and output is used or produced, and whe...
Albert: A Program Seeking Dignified Work
Commentary, March, 05 2000
Michael Albert
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We want to dignify work so we seek to equalize the empowerment effects of all jobs. But how?
Albert: Dignified Work
Commentary, February, 27 2000
Michael Albert
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The issue of Dignified Work has two primary components: (1) what is a just division of tasks for each person; and (2) what division of tasks do we need to adopt in order to have our work foster self-management?
Albert: A Program Seeking Self Management
Commentary, February, 20 2000
Michael Albert
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Agreeing that self-management, or decision making input in proportion as one is affected, is a core goal for a participatory economic movement, what demands can we fight for today that will help move us toward self-management tomorrow?
Albert: Self Management as a Goal
Commentary, February, 13 2000
Michael Albert
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How much say should each actor in an economy have over decisions in that economy? Why should we aim for self-management defined as decision-making input proportionate to the degree one is affected by outcomes?
Albert: A Program Seeking Just Rewards
Commentary, February, 06 2000
Michael Albert
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Suppose we agree that people ought to be paid only according to how hard they work and how onerous their work conditions are. To attain these Just Rewards we must reduce and ultimately eliminate reward for property, power, and output; reduce and f...
Albert: Just Rewards
Commentary, January, 30 2000
Michael Albert
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In a desirable economy what income does each actor get to enjoy? What is the basis for remuneration?
Albert: Movement for a Participatory Economy: An Overview
Commentary, January, 23 2000
Michael Albert
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Besides immediate objectives, great social movements need long-run goals for inspiration and guidance. The abolitionist movement to end slavery and the movement for the eight-hour day both in the nineteenth century, the movement for women's suffra...
Albert: Internet Commercialism?!
Commentary, January, 15 2000
Michael Albert
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There is an old economic saying that "there is no free lunch." To get something out of an economy you have to put something in. Contrary to rumors, this holds for the Internet as well as for factories. To provide internet content takes labor, tool...
Albert: A Q & A on the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and Activism
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
Michael Albert
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A Q & A on the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and Activism
Albert: Building Solidarity
Commentary, December, 24 1999
Michael Albert
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Social struggle will never be perfectly choreographed but we can at least have broad norms regarding movement process that benefit all involved constituencies.
Albert: Different Strokes for Different Folks!?
Commentary, December, 18 1999
Michael Albert
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How do we evaluate movement tactics and particularly property-damaging or truly aggressive or violent tactics?
