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Albert: Parecon & Marxism - 2
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
[This is a continuation of the long draft chapter regarding parecon and marxism...] Marxism and Class But the above is not the problem of Marxism that I wish to feature here, partly because it is straightforward to correct and a great many Marxi...
Albert: Parecon and Marxism - 1
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I am working on a book about Parecon and the rest of a good society -- and have placed drafts of some chapters in this blog system. Near the end of the book I am thinking about including two chapters, one on parecon and marxism, the other on parec...
Spannos: Life After Capitalism Conference
Blog Post, August, 17 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Well, four more days to go before the Life After Capitalism conference being held in New York City, beginning this Friday and continuing throughout Saturday and Sunday. Myself and fellow Vancouver Parecon Collective member Matt Grinder will be at...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Journalism
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Here is another draft chapter for the book in progress about parecon and the rest of society. This is about media and jouralism. Parecon: Journalism [Draft -- not for attribution, use, or display outside of this blog, please. But comments here a...
Albert: Parecon and Society Book Project
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I am working on a new book and thought I would use the blog to try out first drafts, etc. I mentioned this before the blog snafus, and repeat now. The book will be about the implications of participatory economics for other parts of life and vice...
Albert: Beyond Capitalism
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I have been asked for a short essay for a book that will appear at the ESF, this October. I have to rush it...and here is a draft. Anyone who wants to send me any suggestions, please feel free. But the commenting system is down. Beyond Capitalis...
Albert: Soc 292 - The Second Student
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The second student worries about parecon's method of allocation. > For the purposes of making decision about allocation, Albert advocates 'decentralized participatory planning' (p. 122), in which members of a parecon, in their respective capacit...
Albert: Soc 292: Parecon Comments
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In perusing the internet I found a pdf of comments by students, I think, of a sociology course (292) that used parecon for a reading. I thought I might briefly react to its contents in a few blog posts. The first student, after indicating his bro...
Chomsky: Classified Documents
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The scheduled release of declassified documents in the official State Department history is 30 years. In practice it is a bit longer, about 35 years or so usually. Of course, not everything is declassified. Sometimes it turns out on independent ...
Albert: Parecon and Society -- chapters
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
This is a list of possible chapters for a book on p[arecon and society. What others topics might be of interest? Supposing you could read anyone writing on any of these or other topics, whose views would you be interested in? Parecon and Polity ...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Education
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
This is a draft of a possible chapter, giving a broad idea of what they might be like...again, only a draft. Parecon and Education Part of education is intrinsic and oriented to the individual. To think about education starting with the student...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Possible Intro
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I am thinking about the possibility of a new book perhaps entitled Parecon and Society. It would be about what having a parecon would mean for the rest of society, beyond the economy. I am curious if people think such a book would be useful. I am ...
Albert: Economics and Parecon
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
A second interview for Polish publication... 1) Many economists, for example L. Mises and other austrian economists, think that private ownership of means of production is a necessity. They argue that without private ownership of means of product...
Albert: Market Madness
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I was asked to do an email interview by a friend from Poland, for publication there, dealing with a rising tide of market ideology among Polish economists. Since it bears on issues of parecon, I thought I might as well convey it here, as well... ...
Albert: New pages comparing Capitalism and Parecon
Blog Post, May, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I am busy creating a "site" within ZNet and the Parecon site that is about comparing capitalism and participatory economics. It means to be succinct, aesthetically appealing, and provocative to further investigation. I could use help. As...
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: Routes To Economic Vision: Efficiency
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
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
Albert's ZSpace page
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
Albert's ZSpace page
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
Albert's ZSpace page
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...
