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Albert: Which Way Venezuela?
Znet Article, July, 23 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
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...
Szczepanczyk: The Montesi Maneuver: A Way To Think About Corporations, Markets, Participatory Economics, and the Environment
Znet Article, July, 05 2008
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
Corporations -- particularly those transnational corporations with limited liability and rights of personhood -- pose a great threat, perhaps the greatest threat, to the environment and to the future of this planet. Examples are legion: Exxon-Mobi...
Spannos: What is Real Utopia?
Znet Article, July, 04 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
UTOPIAS HAVE A LONG, mixed history in Left movements. Sometimes they have propelled our imagination toward what better worlds might look like. Other times they have trumpeted heaven on earth, a world for angels rather than mortals, a far fetched l...
Spannos: Real Utopia Interview
Znet Article, July, 02 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
The book is a collective effort to spell out vision and strategy for a feasible and desirable transformation of society’s defining institutions. It explores how to get there along with concrete examples and lessons taken from past and present Left...
Lipow: Cooling a Fevered Planet
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Gar Lipow
Lipow's ZSpace page
Nobody, except for a small lunatic fringe, still disputes that human-caused climate chaos endangers all of us. Further, most serious scientific and technical groups who have looked at the question have concluded that we have the technological capa...
O'Ceallaigh: Power Shift to Economic Justice and Democracy
Znet Article, June, 20 2008
Liam O'Ceallaigh
O'Ceallaigh's ZSpace page
Power Shift to Economic Justice and Democracy: Why the Environmental Movement Should Aim to Abolish Markets and Embrace Democratic Planning of the Economy
Majavu: Building African Cadres of Excellence: A study of the neo-colonial coordinator class
Commentary, June, 16 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
Times have changed. The colonial project in Africa is no longer carried out with a gun and a boot and a baton. Structural adjustment programmes inform the neo-colonial agenda; and that agenda requires that a new coordinator class among the native...
Spannos: Parecon and Anarchism: A Dialogue
Video, May, 15 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
New York Anarchist Bookfair...
Evans: Education for Economic Justice - a first step towards trade union revitalisation
Znet Article, May, 11 2008
Mark Evans
Evans's ZSpace page
Education is the starting point for all progressive movements. All activism has to be guided by ideas and all organising has to be built upon a foundation of popular knowledge and shared understanding.
Albert: Parecon and Aspirations
Commentary, May, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Leftists throughout the world today, and in all past times, have sought what are actually conceptually simple outcomes: each person should be as free as all others and as able to enjoy the fruits of labor and the virtues of social engagement in an...
Albert: Situating Parecon: A Talk in Innsbruck Austria
Znet Article, April, 28 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
A Talk in Innsbruck Austria...
D'arcy: "War of Position": Anti-Capitalist Attrition as a Revolutionary Strategy for Non-Revolutionary Times
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Steve D'arcy
D'arcy's ZSpace page
In non-revolutionary times, a revolutionary strategy has to acknowledge the distance that separates the preparatory phase from the crisis phase of anti-capitalist struggle. In a preparatory period, that is, when revolution is not yet a foreseeable...
Albert: Parecon and Solidarity
Znet Article, April, 26 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Keynote Address at the All for One, One for All Conference, in Vienna Austria.
Albert: Pareconish Intellectual Agendas
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
New ideas have intellectual value largely in proportion to their impact on further new ideas beyond themselves. Does a new idea open doors or does it lead nowhere, sitting dormant?
Albert: Turkish Interview
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The argument that it is necessary to conceive and to then explicitly seek an alternative to capitalism has three big premises. First, capitalism is horrific to humans. This is accepted, I think, among most people. Capitalism breeds grotesque incom...
Albert: Parecon and Internationalism
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
For this chapter, to take a different angle on things, let’s begin with what we currently endure internationally and ask what changes we would like to win with our activism, short and mid term. Then we can see what our aspirations for internationa...
Albert: Summary of Parecon
Znet Article, April, 23 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Economies incorporate an almost infinite array of components. Two different societies, whether France and Mexico, or the U.S. and South Africa, even if they have the same type of economic system, will have a myriad of economic differences ranging ...
Albert: Parecon and Strategy
Znet Article, April, 22 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The effort to win a new economy will obviously have a great many facets. In Moving Forward (AK Press) I discussed parecon related strategic issues in detail. A more recent book by Robin Hahnel, Economic Justice and Democracy, addresses parecon rel...
Albert: Parecon and Anarchism
Znet Article, April, 21 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Like most social movements, anarchism is diverse. Most broadly, an anarchist seeks out and identifies structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination throughout life, and tries to challenge them, as conditions and the pursuit of justice permit....
Albert: Real Utopia-Left Forum '08: Discussion Session 2/3
Video, April, 20 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert on "Democratic Planning" & Brian Dominick on "strategy against state repression"
