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Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Internationalism

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Michael Albert
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For this chapter, to take a different angle on things, let’s begin with what we currently endure internationally and ask what changes we would like to win with our activism, short and mid term. Then we can see what our aspirations for internationa...

Znet Article Albert: Summary of Parecon

Znet Article, April, 23 2008 Michael Albert
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Economies incorporate an almost infinite array of components. Two different societies, whether France and Mexico, or the U.S. and South Africa, even if they have the same type of economic system, will have a myriad of economic differences ranging ...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Strategy

Znet Article, April, 22 2008 Michael Albert
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The effort to win a new economy will obviously have a great many facets. In Moving Forward (AK Press) I discussed parecon related strategic issues in detail. A more recent book by Robin Hahnel, Economic Justice and Democracy, addresses parecon rel...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Anarchism

Znet Article, April, 21 2008 Michael Albert
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Like most social movements, anarchism is diverse. Most broadly, an anarchist seeks out and identifies structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination throughout life, and tries to challenge them, as conditions and the pursuit of justice permit....

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Marxism

Znet Article, April, 20 2008 Michael Albert
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My discussions of anarchism and particularly of Marxism are contentious and controversial. It has seemed that my past presentations of this material have often failed to communicate my actual thoughts. To correct misinterpretation, here I argue po...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Science/Technology

Znet Article, April, 19 2008 Michael Albert
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Like every label for a complex personal and social practice the word science is fuzzy at its edges making it hard for us to pin down what is and what isn’t science. Nonetheless, for our broad purposes, we can assert that science refers to an accum...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Ecology

Znet Article, April, 18 2008 Michael Albert
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Economies affect natural environments in diverse ways, of course. They add new contents to the environment, such as pollutants. They deplete contents from the environment, such as natural resources. They alter the arrangement and composition of at...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Athletics

Znet Article, April, 17 2008 Michael Albert
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By this point, talking about parecon’s implications for athletics and athletes ought to be relatively easy. It is barely different than for science, art, and journalism. There is, however, one interesting new angle to address: the issue of competi...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon & Journalism

Znet Article, April, 16 2008 Michael Albert
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The idea of journalism is not overly complex. Societies involve huge ranges of activity and possibility. Each day events occur, processes unfold. The qualities of our lives depend on these events and processes in two senses.

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Dissent

Znet Article, April, 15 2008 Michael Albert
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There is no end to history. There is no end to dissent. A parecon has, I believe, highly desirable features. For a new economy to eliminate unjust income differentials, produce solidarity rather than anti-sociality, diversify rather than homogeniz...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Crime

Znet Article, April, 05 2008 Michael Albert
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It is often said that how a society treats those it punishes graphically displays how civilized and humane that society is. If we look at how criminals are treated we see a portrait of a society’s moral soul.

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Polity

Znet Article, April, 04 2008 Michael Albert
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Current times make an argument that contemporary political structures are decrepit and redundant. Every day hammers home the realization. My own country, the U.S., arguably has one of the most democratic political systems now operating.

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Gender

Znet Article, March, 30 2008 Michael Albert
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A problem with this discussion, like many others that we will undertake, is that there is as yet very little clarity about what revolutionized kinship relations will be like in a new society...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon & Education

Znet Article, March, 28 2008 Michael Albert
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One aspect of education is intrinsic and oriented to the individual. To think about education starting with the student, we examine the process of conveying information and skills to develog talents in students. We ask what is the best way to educ...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon & Cultural Communities

Znet Article, March, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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Humans tend to create diverse communities bound by shared cultures that differ from one another in their artistic, linguistic, and spiritual allegiances and preferences. The problem of cultural communities is not this diversity per se, but that cu...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Art

Znet Article, March, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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One could easily anticipate that people who own factories and have great wealth would have a negative initial--and perhaps long term--reaction to the classlessness of participatory economics...

Znet Article Albert: Class: What Do We Want, How Do We Get It

Znet Article, February, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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Class is a concept meant to highlight groups of people in the economy with similar interests and motives. Classes are groups that social activists should regard collectively.

Znet Article Albert: Participatory Economics

Znet Article, February, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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First off, like all of you I despise capitalism. I don’t want an economy in which Bill Gates has as much wealth as the population of Norway. I don’t want homeless people living under bridges and CEOs having huge mansions. I don’t want people fleec...

Znet Article Albert: Alternative Publishing And Its Problems

Znet Article, February, 18 2008 Michael Albert
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Interview about the role of publishing in social change...

Znet Article Albert: New Site Q&A

Znet Article, December, 31 2007 Michael Albert
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There have been numerous questions from users, from many directions, about the new Z Communications Upgrade as well as our financial situation, aims, methods, etc. These questions have been more than reasonable, and patient, especially given that ...

Znet Article Albert: Istanbul Talk for Istanbul METU Alumni Association

Znet Article, December, 24 2007 Michael Albert
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What is the population of Turkey? 70 million? The population of US where I come from is roughly 300 million. How many people do we need on our side to create a new Turkish society? How many people do we need on our side in US to create a new US so...

Znet Article Albert: Pat Devine on Parecon

Znet Article, August, 28 2007 Michael Albert
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I was happy to see a review of Parecon: Life After Capitalism in the journal "Historical Materialism" (Issue 15, 2007). The author, Pat Devine, agrees on the importance of economic vision per se. He is also quite familiar with the model called par...

Znet Article Albert: SDS Convention Report

Znet Article, August, 09 2007 Michael Albert
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The last weekend in July the new SDS (http://www.newsds.org) held its second national convention in Detroit Michigan. R...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon as a New Path for the Balkans?

Znet Article, August, 01 2007 Michael Albert
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  The following interview was prepared for ZMag Balkans, a new print magazine, produced by "Freedom Fight collective" f...

Znet Article Albert: Embark Now

Znet Article, July, 14 2007 Michael Albert
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In the U.S. August is almost upon us. Six weeks and U.S. students will trek back to school, including college. Would that I was one of them, not because it would mean I was forty years younger - though that would be a nice turn o...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Anarcho-Syndicalism: An Interview with Michael Albert

Znet Article, July, 04 2007 Michael Albert
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Participatory economics, or parecon for short, is a classless economic system that serves as an alternative to capitalism, market socialism, and centrally planned economies.

Znet Article Albert: Democracy Now Remembering Tomorrow Interview

Znet Article, April, 18 2007 Michael Albert
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AMY GOODMAN: It's a question that's been posed to social movements for year: We know what you oppose, but what's your alternative? My next guest is considered one of today’s leading thinkers on that very...

Znet Article Albert: Remembering Tomorrow Interview

Znet Article, February, 02 2007 Michael Albert
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(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Remembering Tomorrow, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Remembering Tomorrow is not organized in a linear historical flow, as are most memoirs. Instead, Remembering Tomorrow's main sec...

Znet Article Albert: Hola, Hugo

Znet Article, December, 17 2006 Michael Albert
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¿Has sentido alguna vez que hay cosas sobre las que quieres saber lo que alguien piensa, que serían importantes para las vidas de mucha gente, y sobre las que sin embargo no tienes forma de obtener respuesta? No puedes llamar a esa persona y preg...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon: German Interview

Znet Article, December, 05 2006 Michael Albert
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Parecon: German Interview

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