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Znet Article Albert: Rejoining Staudenmaier

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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I am happy to hear many social ecologists agree with balanced job complexes. I'll follow the debate topics you raise in the order you propose, but do so as I would write a private letter, to make our debates less formal. I apologize for the length...

Znet Article Albert: Summarizing Participatory Economics

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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The task of developing a vision for any sphere of social life is to set out the functions the domain must accomplish, the values we hold dear, and the institutions that can accomplish the functions while propelling the values.

Znet Article Albert: Exploring Libertarian Municipalism and Parecon...

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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In early November, 1999, ZNet posted an article by Michael Albert entitled Assessing Libertarian Municipalism. This page is devoted to discussion of that article. It includes messages received and rejoinders and explorations that ensued, as best w...

Znet Article Albert: Exploring Libertarian Municipalism and Parecon...

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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In early November, 1999, ZNet posted an article by Michael Albert entitled Assessing Libertarian Municipalism. This page is devoted to discussion of that article. It includes messages received and rejoinders and explorations that ensued, as best w...

Znet Article Albert: Exploring Libertarian Municipalism and Parecon...

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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In early November, 1999, ZNet posted an article by Michael Albert entitled Assessing Libertarian Municipalism. This page is devoted to discussion of that article. It includes messages received and rejoinders and explorations that ensued, as best w...

Znet Article Albert: Assessing Libertarian Municipalism

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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On a recent speaking tour to Montreal (1999) a number of folks asked me my reactions to Libertarian Municipalism-a vision for politics emanating from the "School of Social Ecology." Others put it to me more specifically: How did I react to the rej...

Znet Article Albert: Replying to Mandell and Finger

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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Am I somehow soft on Centrally Planned Socialism? Let me reassure Mandell: I am not. I abhor it. On the other hand, there is no point decrying this economic structure because it can exist intertwined with and supporting a grotesque political dicta...

Znet Article Albert: Is Socialism Still on the Agenda?

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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To answer the title question, I have to provide answers for three possible meanings of "socialism" and also for a semantic issue, the use of the word "socialism," in any form.

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Horowitz 4

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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I can understand being busy, I have that problem too... When you want to stop our exchange, however, you will have to stop writing content. As long as you reply with new points, I will reply in turn. It is my habit, and I type quickly.

Znet Article Albert: Reply to Horowitz 3

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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You say "Socialism doesn't work first because you can't substitute politics (plans) for the market and get anything like a rational allocation of resources..."

Znet Article Albert: Albert Replies Anew

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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Let's assume all your assertions about the Soviet economy circa 1980 are precisely correct. To have bearing on what I argued about centrally planned socialism's capacity to accomplish material development despite its other drawbacks, you would hav...

Znet Article Albert: Albert Replies to Horowitz

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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The essay Horowitz is referring to is titled "Is Socialism Still on the Agenda?" It was written on request for the magazine New Politics and is available online at http://zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/18547 As part of a larger argument, th...

Znet Article Albert: Replying to Hitchens

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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I have gotten a lot of mail asking me to react to Christopher Hitchens comments in the Nation magazine and on the Nation website. I am loathe to do so because I fear that considerable energies of wonderful people will go into worrying about precis...

Znet Article Shalom: Conspiracies Or Institutions: 9-11 and Beyond

Znet Article, August, 20 2008 Stephen1 Shalom
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The most common definition of a conspiracy is two or more people secretly planning a criminal act. Examples of related conspiracy theories include belief that JFK was assassinated by rogue CIA elements attempting to ward off unwanted liberalism; t...

Znet Article Albert: Which Way?

Znet Article, August, 04 2008 Michael Albert
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Interview focusing on Venezuela and ZNet...

Znet Article Albert: Which Way Venezuela?

Znet Article, July, 23 2008 Michael Albert
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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...

Znet Article Albert: Black Like Who?

Znet Article, July, 08 2008 Michael Albert
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Religion has had a lot do with cultural politics throughout history, as it does today. My own religious encounters weren’t particularly significant in my life, save for two. I am Jewish, just barely, I guess. I went to Jewish Sunday school until m...

Znet Article Albert: The Action Faction

Znet Article, July, 02 2008 Michael Albert
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On one trip across country, after graduating from MIT, I arrived in Seattle with my MIT friends Peter Bohmer and George Katsiaficas. There we met a group that called itself the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF). These guys had gone to Seattle in 1970...

Znet Article Albert: Bread and Roses

Znet Article, June, 24 2008 Michael Albert
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Being in the movement doesn’t eliminate typical day-to-day concerns. For one thing, gender dynamics are often personal—ranging from divisions of household labor and attitudes, through daily tasks, on to assumptions and methods of interpersonal beh...

Znet Article Albert: The Ringing Of Revolution

Znet Article, June, 17 2008 Michael Albert
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Another excerpt in the serialization of Parts One and Two of the memoir Remembering Tomorrow by Michael Albert, this time chapter 10 and 11, distributed in this 40th year since the New Left and May 68.

Znet Article Albert: Chapter 6: Why Do It?

Znet Article, June, 04 2008 Michael Albert
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Another excerpt in the serialization of Parts One and Two of the memoir Remembering Tomorrow by Michael Albert.

Znet Article Albert: Stargazing

Znet Article, May, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Another excerpt in the serialization of Parts One and Two of the memoir Remembering Tomorrow by Michael Albert, this time chapter 5, distributed in this 40th year since the New Left and May 68.

Znet Article Albert: Spiritual Crossroads

Znet Article, May, 21 2008 Michael Albert
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Another excerpt in the serialization of Parts One and Two of the memoir Remembering Tomorrow by Michael Albert, this time chapter 4, distributed in this 40th year since the New Left and May 68.

Znet Article Albert: Remembering Tomorrow: Chapter 2

Znet Article, May, 14 2008 Michael Albert
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In high school, in 1964–65, I applied to five colleges and got in everywhere except Harvard. I wanted to go to Harvard because I wanted to be in the same school as my best friend Larry Seidman, who was a Harvard freshman during my senior year in h...

Znet Article Albert: Remembering Tomorrow Introduction

Znet Article, May, 09 2008 Michael Albert
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Intro to book memoir...

Znet Article Albert: Situating Parecon: A Talk in Innsbruck Austria

Znet Article, April, 28 2008 Michael Albert
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A Talk in Innsbruck Austria...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Solidarity

Znet Article, April, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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Keynote Address at the All for One, One for All Conference, in Vienna Austria.

Znet Article Albert: Pareconish Intellectual Agendas

Znet Article, April, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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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?

Znet Article Albert: Turkish Interview

Znet Article, April, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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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...

Znet Article Albert: Turkish Interview

Znet Article, April, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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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...

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