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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: 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?
Albert: The WTO and Mumia Abu Jamal
Commentary, October, 18 1999
Michael Albert
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The World Trade Organization treats working people in countries throughout the world as assets to manipulate in pursuit of private corporate profit. From Guatemala to South Africa and from Thailand to the South Bronx, this causes impoverishment, i...
Albert: Prison Policy
Commentary, August, 10 1999
Michael Albert
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About 25 years ago I was at a dinner party with a bunch of leftist economics faculty and grad students, and I posed a hypothetical question to engender some dinner debate. If you had only two choices, I asked, would you open all prison doors and l...
Albert: Pacifica, Pacifica!
Commentary, June, 23 1999
Michael Albert
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The current crisis at Pacifica was unleashed with recent firings of prominent and appreciated employees leading to irate listeners and employees demonstrating their opposition widely and militantly. Any progressive alternative institution has to u...
Albert: Some Thoughts About the Bombings
Commentary, March, 26 1999
Michael Albert
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Does it ring any bells for anyone else that bombing country A may not have anything to do with country A per se, at least in recent times? Once it begins, bombing almost never yields a sought outcome regarding the place bombed (save, of course, wh...
