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Albert: Albert Reacts Again
Znet Article, May, 12 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I continue to mainly wonder what you see as the deep benefits of peer production for people's options at work or more generally as well as for production results. That list is needed, it seems to me, so we can assess whether the benefits you see i...
Albert: Replying to Bauwens’ Reactions to Parecon
Znet Article, May, 08 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Continuing the debate on parecon...
Albert: Querying Confusions: My First Reply to Peer to Peer
Znet Article, May, 04 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert's First Reply to Peer to Peer
Albert: Parecon: Future & Present
Znet Article, April, 27 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Opening essay offered as part of an extended exploration of views conducted with Michel Bauwens. Digital Curator and co-founder Peer to Peer Foundation
Albert: Another Left Turn In Venezuela
Znet Article, March, 30 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The development of the Bolivarian Revolution, including using the institutional gains achieved to date to meet human needs and develop popular potentials via humane policies, as well as establishing further institutional gains, his encountered thr...
Albert: Demand, Don't Succumb
Znet Article, March, 26 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
A short term program addressing getting out of the current economic crisis...
Albert: Parecon or Markets
Znet Article, March, 11 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Replying to Erik Olin Wright's reactions to parecon
Albert: Taking Up The Task
Znet Article, March, 08 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Following the Ehrenreich/Fletcher instruction to Reimagine Socialism
Albert: Seven Reasons Why I Advocate Parecon
Znet Article, March, 05 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
An essay for a joint exploration/debate of economic vision to be undertaken with Heinz Dieterich
Chomsky: Conversations Between Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky Pt. 3
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In January 1993 Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky recorded a series of conversations which were later distributed by Z Magazine.
Chomsky: Conversations Between Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky Pt. 2
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In January 1993 Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky recorded a series of conversations which were later distributed by Z Magazine.
Chomsky: Conversations Between Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky Pt. 1
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In January 1993 Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky recorded a series of conversations which were later distributed by Z Magazine...
Albert: Back to Class
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I first became politically active in 1966. By 1969—it was a fast moving time—I had a pretty well developed political perspective. For a couple of decades, along with trying to develop new media institutions and some other left projects, I had a pr...
Albert: Canadian Dimension Interview
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
This Fall Michael Albert went to Canada for some talks and did an interview with the excellent Canadian Magazine, Canadian Dimension. Here is an essentially verbatim transcript they prepared for publication in Canada.
Albert: Resurrect the 'R' Word
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Consider this: eight million unemployed, 35 million poor, 20 million “hungry,” 400,000 homeless, a third of government expenditures financing militarism. IBM controls 80 percent in computers; GE and Westinghouse control 85 percent in heavy electri...
Albert: Marxism’s Anniversary, Long Live (a piece of) Marxism!
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the 150th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto is that, well, who cares? The answer is: nearly no one. More, nearly no one would care about Marx’s birthday or Lenin’s, or about the birthday of the Russian,...
Albert: Yawning Emptiness
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Just after the Washington Demos, the NY Times, Washington Post, and many other mainstream media outlets did “evaluative” pieces on the events. The Seattle and DC demonstrators don’t know what they want. The activists offer nothing beyond capitalis...
Albert: Markets Uber Alles?
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Other than broad references to income distribution, homelessness, infrastructure, and ecology, most efforts to demonstrate the above points have been abstract and have not yet convinced even progressive economists, much less the broad population. ...
Albert: Marketeers?!
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Last issue I took a swipe at John Roemer’s new book The Future of Socialism. I also blasted Sam Bowles for praising the book on the back cover. I don’t like it when people who know better tell the public that markets—one of the most destruct...
Albert: Goodbye Soviets?
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The dissolution of the Soviet Union has been a severe psychic loss for many leftists. Why? The end of Soviet power has increased U.S. military dominance. There is a grave possibility of famine. Even without a new coup, Yeltsin and/or his counterpa...
Albert: Cuba SÃ?
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In the nearly three decades since Castro's assessment, for all of Latin America except Cuba, the above statistics have improved little, or worsened. In the 1980s, income in Latin America, excluding Cuba, declined by 8 percent, according to the Int...
Albert: Revolutions in the East
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
As a Czech poster put it, “the Poles took ten years, the Hungarians ten months, the East Germans ten weeks, and the Czechoslovaks only ten days†to topple regimes once viewed as unassailable. Here is an attempt to distinguish the good news fro...
Albert: Reply To Democracy And Nature Comments
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Having been kindly invited to contribute to an upcoming issue of Democracy & Nature, I was sent some back issues, including No. 9. In it I found Takis Fotopoulis’s “Outline for an Economic Model†and in that I found a number of references to...
Albert: Participatory Economics
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
According to most economists, the activities of separate groups of producers and consumers can be coordinated by markets or by authoritarian planning—but there is no “third way.â€
Albert: Socialism As It Was Always Meant To Be
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
As the twentieth century draws to a close, what have we learned about how we should manage our economic affairs? What should we do if we had the opportunity to start again?
Albert: Venezuelan Direct Democracy: The case of the Consejos Comunales.
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In 2004, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez created a movement named the consejos comunales (communal councils) aimed at creating more responsive local governance by handing local budgetary and legislative power to the councils. This movement was se...
Albert: Markets Über Alles?
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Other than broad references to income distribution, homelessness, infrastructure, and ecology, most efforts to demonstrate the above points have been abstract and have not yet convinced even progressive economists, much less the broad population. ...
Albert: Neoclassical Micro And Macro Economics--Science Or Silliness?
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
BY ITS own claims economics is the most scientific "social science." Yet non-economist critics such as E.F. Schumacher tell us that "to produce [economic] figures about the unknown, the current method is to make a guess about something or other--c...
Albert: When the Ship Comes In
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The following is a slightly revised transcript of the Testimony Presentation by Michael Albert delivered at the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002.
Albert: Participatory Economics Interview
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
We're in the studio today with Michael Albert, activist and author of several books, including Looking Forward from South End Press and Political Economy of Participatory Economics from Princeton University Press, and co-founder and editor of Z Ma...
