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Blog Post Albert: Reply to Brian Dominick's Reaction About Artists and Parecon

Blog Post, August, 14 2004 Michael Albert
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Brian, I am not entirely sure I am understanding your points. I am pretty sure that I haven't heard anyone else say quite what you are saying, and that it is not a set of concerns that are going to arise often. Still, I want to try to reply, if no...

Blog Post Albert: Parecon and Society: Art

Blog Post, August, 13 2004 Michael Albert
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Here is another chapter in draft for the book in progress. This one does have a section missing on the conditions of artists in the U.S., etc. which will have stats about artists doing ads instead of art, and so on...but otherwise it is ready for ...

Blog Post Albert: Parecon and Society: Journalism

Blog Post, August, 12 2004 Michael Albert
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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...

Blog Post Albert: Parecon and Society -- Crime

Blog Post, August, 12 2004 Michael Albert
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Here is a draft of a proposed chapter for the new book I am now working on... The proposed book title, by the way, is Bread and Life with the subtitle Participatory Economics and Society. Here is the draft of the crime chapter titled Parecon: Crim...

Blog Post Albert: Parecon and Society Book Project

Blog Post, August, 12 2004 Michael Albert
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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...

Blog Post Albert: DNC Speech

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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I got an email asking if I could write up a on eminute speech for the DNC -- what I would say on prime time. The request is very odd, but here is what I jotted off...probably would take a bit more than a minute though, to deliver... Given that th...

Blog Post Albert: Thought Dreams -- The Book...

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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Arbeiter Ring Pre4ss has just released (and I just received through the mail) Thought Dreams: Radical Theory for the Twenty First Century, a new book of mine. Thought Dreams, the book, is my best effort to take an audience, starting from scratch...

Blog Post Albert: Worrying About Terror

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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I actually think there is some reason to worry that there will be a terrorist attack between now and the election. Not because the government says so, of course. They haven't got a clue. But because from the perspective of bin Laden and co., it ma...

Blog Post Albert: Inquiries

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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Recently many people are asking why did the U.S. government ignore various indicators leading up to 9/11 that perhaps something horrible would happen if there weren't changes in U.S. policies. Okay…I suppose it isn't an entirely unreasonable quest...

Blog Post Albert: Beyond Capitalism

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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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...

Blog Post Albert: Soc Student…Last

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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> I can't help but wonder whether any system can survive if it is too complex for the general public to understand. Is this serous? Parecon has a few key institutions and concepts, which a junior high school student could easily understand. To ...

Blog Post Albert: Soc student…Sixth

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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> In his model, Albert argues for balanced job complexes instead of a labor market. Balanced job complexes replace corporate division of labor – not labor markets. Hiring and also firing of workers is not a market exchange because the terms are ...

Blog Post Albert: Soc Student…fifth

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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> 1. Ease of Communicating the Parecon Model to Others – Personally, I find that a major obstacle to many reforms is the inability to plainly summarize the proposed reform and the rationale for implementing it (i.e. as if one is organizing behind ...

Blog Post Albert: Soc – Fourth Student

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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The fourth student likes the ideas that, First, “participatory consumers must weigh the benefits of consumption requests against the sacrifices required to produce them.” Second, “participatory consumers must distinguish reasonable consumption req...

Blog Post Albert: Soc 292 - The Third Student

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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Hmmmmm…these student comments are a bit longer than I anticipated…also a bit less in touch with the actual characteristics of parecon…but I started so I guess I will continue, though a bit more summarily than I had hoped, given these attributes. ...

Blog Post Albert: Soc 292 - The Second Student

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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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...

Blog Post Albert: Soc 292: Parecon Comments

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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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...

Blog Post Albert: The World and the US

Blog Post, July, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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Recently on a number of occasions I have told people asking about how parecon the book and of course the model was doing, that it was an odd situation In the U.S., I have replied, while there is a lot of progress being made, especially as compare...

Blog Post Albert: Gloves Off

Blog Post, July, 10 2004 Michael Albert
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I guess I am all out of patience and running dry on civility as well. Is it unreasonable to want to know where the left stands regarding capitalism and “other worlds”? Are various movements, institutions, media outlets, and constituencies anti-ca...

Blog Post Albert: The Reagan Phenomena

Blog Post, June, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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What the hell? Reagan, one of the least popular presidents, one of the dumbest presidents, and one of the most morally vile preseidents in American history (which is saying a whole lot) is celebrated in death like no other president since Kennedy ...

Blog Post Albert: Interview for Polish Outlet

Blog Post, June, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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I was recently interviewed for Polish publication about matters of media manipulation, etc. 1) Recently I've realised that very important thing in Poland is special kind of censorship. Its dangerous because most people are not aware of this. Befo...

Blog Post Albert: New Organization?

Blog Post, June, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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Assuming we all fight for social change in the expectation that we will, at some point, win -- and assuming that we fight for a whole new social system, again, in the expectation that at some point we will win -- it follows that at some point ther...

Blog Post Albert: Parecon and Society -- chapters

Blog Post, June, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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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 ...

Blog Post Albert: Parecon and Society: Education

Blog Post, June, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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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...

Blog Post Albert: Parecon and Society: Parecon Overview

Blog Post, June, 11 2004 Michael Albert
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This would be an opening chapter of this possible new book, summarizing parecon itself. Remember, these are merely drafts I am sharing in the blog...looking for some reactions. Parecon: An Overview Participatory economics, or parecon for short,...

Blog Post Albert: Parecon and Society: Possible Intro

Blog Post, June, 10 2004 Michael Albert
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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 ...

Blog Post Albert: Replying to a Review

Blog Post, June, 10 2004 Michael Albert
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Recently I got an email telling me about a review of a book of mine, Looking Forward (SEP 1991) linked on the theory page of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (http://www.syndicalist.org/theory/parecon1.shtml) I read it and was rather surprised by some o...

Blog Post Albert: Economics and Parecon

Blog Post, June, 10 2004 Michael Albert
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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...

Blog Post Albert: Market Madness

Blog Post, June, 10 2004 Michael Albert
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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... ...

Blog Post Albert: Answering a Comment

Blog Post, June, 10 2004 Michael Albert
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In general, I cannot pledge I will relate to all comments, even all questions, posted to the blogs. There is only so much time available. However.... One of the comments I found said I "seem to start with a basic split between Producers and Cons...

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