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Commentary 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...

Commentary Albert: Realize Some Hope

Commentary, February, 11 2006 Michael Albert
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Dear Fellow ZNet Sustainer,

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary Spannos: The Third Wave & the Third Class

Commentary, December, 07 2005 Chris Spannos
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Since the 1999 "Battle of Seattle", we in "The North" have seen a variety of rallies, convergences, organizing and activism. The spark that caught flame in Seattle spread to alliances between Labor and the Environmental movement. The GLBT movement...

Znet Article Spannos: Paths Toward an Anti-Capitalist Liberation

Znet Article, November, 11 2005 Chris Spannos
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Numerous routes have been taken in the course of seeking the good society. Ideals have been fought for, some have won and most have failed. Some have declared an end to history, the imperial order has been established, capitalism triumphant. Other...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Commentary 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.]

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Monbiot: Protesters as Criminals

Znet Article, October, 04 2005 George Monbiot
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"We are trying to fight 21st-century crime - antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime - with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens". Tony Blair, 27th September 2005.(1) "Down poured the wine l...

Znet Article Albert: Hannover Talk

Znet Article, September, 12 2005 Michael Albert
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Introduction First, I’d like to thank everyone here and especially the ...

Commentary Raptis: Katrina: Why?

Commentary, September, 06 2005 Nikos Raptis
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Katrina: Variation of the Greek name "Aikaterini" or "Katerina", of uncertain etymology. Possibly: "Ekaterini", meaning : "either of the two". But, which two? Can one use the word in expressions such as : "Either of the two (e.g. W. Bush and Chene...

Znet Article Albert: Embark Now

Znet Article, September, 01 2005 Michael Albert
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In the U.S. summer is winding down. Soon U.S. students will trek back to school, including college. Would that I was one of them, not because it would mean I was forty years younger - though that would be a nice turn of events - but because this i...

Znet Article Albert: There Is An Alternative

Znet Article, July, 27 2005 Michael Albert
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In capitalism, owners together with about a fifth of the population who have highly empowered work decide what is produced, by what means, and with what distribution. Nearly four fifths of the population does largely rote labor, suffers inferior i...

Znet Article Albert: Exploring Parecon

Znet Article, July, 25 2005 Michael Albert
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In a world riddled with suicide bombings, inconclusive conflicts, and terribly selfish politics, it is a relief to see there are people like Michael Albert creatively searching for salves for the ills in our economic system.  With his books "Movin...

Zmag Article Albert: Science In A Better World

Zmag Article, June, 01 2005 Michael Albert
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S cience refers to an accumulated body of information about the components of the cosmos and to testable claims or theories about how those components interact, as well as to the processes by which we add to our in...

Znet Article Albert: WTO, Globalization, and Alternatives

Znet Article, April, 21 2005 Michael Albert
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Q: Michael, the WTO is set to come to Hong Kong for its next ministerial in December 2005. Could you describe briefly just what the WTO is, and also the process of 'globalization' that it fits into? MA: The WTO is an international organization w...

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