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Znet Article Albert: We Can Win!

Znet Article, November, 14 2008 Michael Albert
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To retain control of oil prices, forestall a peace dividend, and divert attention from the abominable price of Reagan's war on the poor, Bush threatens to unleash rivers of blood in the Mideast. Only fear of international isolation, potentially hy...

Znet Article Albert: Buying Dreams: Visions For A Better Future

Znet Article, November, 14 2008 Michael Albert
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Left activists are moved, first and foremost, by refusal to tolerate injustice. Still, a clear conception of improved social relations can help us understand injustices we oppose and visions, of more desirable futures can help sustain and orient s...

Znet Article Albert: An Interview I Would Love To Read

Znet Article, November, 04 2008 Michael Albert
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An look into the possible future, two years from now...

Znet Article Albert: Concluding Comments for Exchange with Wayne Price

Znet Article, October, 05 2008 Michael Albert
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Wayne and I agree on the need to address all dimensions of life, though I perhaps regard kinship, culture, and polity more on a par with economy and class than Wayne does – a difference that didn’t get emphasized in the exchange.

Znet Article Albert: On the death of capitalism

Znet Article, October, 04 2008 Michael Albert
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Interview with Ceasefire Magazine...

Znet Article Lanz: Interview On Venezuelan Workplaces with Carlos Lanz

Znet Article, October, 03 2008 Carlos Lanz
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Carlos Lanz is an advisor to the Ministry of Education and former director of the Aluminum processing plant Alcasa, which was one of the first experiments in creating a socialist enterprise in Venezuela, in which the workers run one of the country...

Znet Article Albert: Rejoining Price’s Reply

Znet Article, October, 02 2008 Michael Albert
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To avoid going in circles, I will try to be brief…except on the matter of self-sufficiency and scale, which seems to concern many people on the left, particularly anarchists and Greens.

Znet Article Albert: Replying to Price’s Response

Znet Article, September, 30 2008 Michael Albert
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You remain troubled that parecon doesn’t aim for self-sufficiency...

Znet Article Albert: Responding to Revolutionary Class-Struggle Anarchism

Znet Article, September, 29 2008 Michael Albert
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Debate continued...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon & Movement Building

Znet Article, September, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Wanting parecon for the economy implies a commitment to justice consistent with wanting revolutionary transformation of other spheres of life as well. To overcome cynicism, guide practice, deepen support, avoid hypocrisy, and learn as we go, we ne...

Znet Article Albert: Politics In Venezuela

Znet Article, September, 21 2008 Michael Albert
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An extensive interview about the polity in Venezuela, held with Julio Chavez, Mayor of Carora and prominent activist in all dimensions of the Bolivarian Revolution, especially concerning the Communal Councils.

Znet Article Albert: Venezuelan Legal System: An Interview with Fernando Ramón Vegas Torrealba

Znet Article, September, 21 2008 Michael Albert
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Michael Albert went to Venezuela in early September and interviewed numerous people about the Bolivarian Revolution. This one is about the role of the law and legal system, held with Fernando Ramón Vegas Torrealba, justice of the Venezuelan Suprem...

Znet Article Albert: Gender In Venezuela

Znet Article, September, 19 2008 Michael Albert
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In early September Michael Albert went to Venezuela and interviewed numerous people about the Bolivarian Revolution. Here is the first, about the role and situation of women, held with Nora Castañeda, head of the Women's Bank in Venezuela and prom...

Znet Article Albert: Revolutionary Organization

Znet Article, September, 16 2008 Michael Albert
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At some point a revolution will transform the U.S. economy, polity, kinship, and culture - and similar revolutions will transform other countries too. Such a revolutionary process will include diverse movements and organizations working together f...

Znet Article Albert: Talk Delivered to Venezuela Conference on Crisis of Capitalism

Znet Article, September, 04 2008 Michael Albert
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Michael Albert, along with Greg Wilpert, is attending a conference in Venezuela this weekend. He will be conducting a series of interviews there, with responsible people about economics, politics, kinship, race, ecology, and international relation...

Znet Article Albert: Reply to John McMurtry PhD, FRSC

Znet Article, August, 29 2008 Michael Albert
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McMurtry concludes his piece saying that I was sectarian in arguing that it isn't useful for leftists to pursue the question "what did Bush know, when?" Oddly for someone conerned about sectarianism, however, McMurtry begins his piece by lumping m...

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Critics of Anarchism Essay

Znet Article, August, 29 2008 Michael Albert
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We have attempted to incorporate all the materials that have come our way, and to organize it in a flow more or less from origin to conclusion.

Znet Article Albert: Anarchism = Zerzan?

Znet Article, August, 29 2008 Michael Albert
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In a number of mainstream media outlets, anarchism has recently been associated with John Zerzan. In my last ZNet commentary (Anarchism), I instead suggested that anarchism ought to be associated with identifying structures of authority, hierarchy...

Znet Article Albert: Dialogue Concerning Anti-Semitism in Z and in the Left

Znet Article, August, 28 2008 Michael Albert
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Michael Albert was a guest on an upper NY State talk radio show with host Jeremy Anderson. Jeremy accused Z of anti-semitism regarding publication of an article some years back. Subsequent E-Mail exchange led to this public ZNet forum exchange. Mi...

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Maass 2

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Maass has written a rejoinder focusing on focus -- that is, focusing on whether Marxism takes into account other realms than the economy effectively. This is a topic I didn't want to pursue and which I barely raised at all in the piece he is react...

Znet Article Albert: First Reply To Maass's Opening Essay

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Maass opens his essay by defending Marxism against criticisms "that Karl Marx and Frederick Engels predicted that capitalism would collapse, and it hasn’t; that the fall of the Berlin Wall exposed the failure of Marxism; that class struggle can’t ...

Znet Article Albert: Albert Conclusion

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Our topic in this debate has been the relevance of Marxism for seeking social change today. My view has been that while Marxism of course contains many powerful and important insights, adhering to Marxism as a guiding ideology that we label oursel...

Znet Article Albert: Albert Rejoins

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Before getting into your points, you and I disagree so much about the texts you quote and about the historical events you have referenced that to clash on that just won't yield progress, I fear, though it may give us both carpel tunnel syndrome. Y...

Znet Article Albert: Excerpt from the introduction to Looking Forward (sep 1990)

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Following the fine and sober book by the Hungarians George Konrad and Ivan Szelenyi, The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), we can transcend the U.S. government, the Soviet government, the New York Times, and mos...

Znet Article Albert: Marxism: Virtues & Problems

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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How do we decide whether to employ Marxism? Do its concepts highlight what's most important and leave out what's peripheral? Do they reveal the roots of oppression? Do they conceive liberating relationships? Do they effectively inform activist int...

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Staudenmaier 3

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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I guess we had a confusion about our assignments. I thought one thread (this one) was to discuss social ecology's vision (its whole vision, including politics) and the other was to discuss parecon. This thread, that is, would be you presenting soc...

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Staudenmaier 2

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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Peter, you begin by saying you may have missed some important issues. I hope you won't mind my saying that I think perhaps you did skip some central matters...and that you also won't mind my returning to some points raised before, again, as well a...

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Staudenmaier

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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Peter, you begin by saying we must turn our attention to the social structures that can make a free society more likely. I agree...

Znet Article Albert: Replying to Social Ecology Forum Post 1

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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I received a post from Michael Caplan, who is engineering/moderating this debate...I'm not sure who it is from, but hi.

Znet Article Albert: Replying to Staudenmaier

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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What have we embarked on--keeping up is hard to do. And I've even got another debate going on, with a prominent member of ISO, about Marxism. So, apologies. I should take longer with this, to make it more concise and exact...but with everything el...

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