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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

Znet Article Albert: The Soul of Resistance

Znet Article, November, 21 2006 Michael Albert
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In an exclusive interview with the Star Weekend Magazine, Michael Albert, economist, editor of ZNet and co-editor of Z magazine, talks about Islamic extremism and new revolutionary theories.   What is your interpretation of what western corporat...

Znet Article Albert: Kritische Masse Interview

Znet Article, November, 13 2006 Michael Albert
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Michael Albert, born in 1947, is an author and political activist of the anarchist-syndicalist movement, living in Boston (Massachusetts / USA). He is editor of the internet platform "ZNet" as well as co-editor and co-founder of the political Z Ma...

Znet Article Albert: Chavez, the Devil, Chomsky, and Us

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Michael Albert
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What can leftists learn from Chavez’s UN speech and its aftermath? That the U.S. is the world’s most egregious rogue state. We already knew that and, in fact, so does most everyone else. That Bush and Co. engage in repeated acts of...

Znet Article Albert: Help The NewStandard

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Michael Albert
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The following is a letter sent by Michael Albert to the ZNet Update list...   --- The folks at The NewStandard need our help. I have spent years working to get people thinking about alternative economics, and especially the vision of parecon. ...

Znet Article Albert: Why Parecon?

Znet Article, September, 14 2006 Michael Albert
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Fifteen years ago, Robin Hahnel and I published a book titled Looking Forward. It was the first in-depth presentation of the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short. Of course Robin and I worked hard on parecon and rel...

Znet Article Albert: Solidarity and Participatory Economics

Znet Article, September, 13 2006 Michael Albert
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Solidarity and Participatory Economics

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and France

Znet Article, July, 23 2006 Michael Albert
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An economy has to produce goods and sevices that we then enjoy both for survival and pleasure. It also has to facilitate our getting those outputs of economic activity, which is to say, consumption. And between production and consumption comes wha...

Znet Article Albert: Building A Pareconish Movement

Znet Article, May, 03 2006 Michael Albert
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{ This paper was prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These sessions g...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon Today

Znet Article, April, 27 2006 Michael Albert
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1. Where did parecon come from? What is its history? Participatory economics, or parecon, came mainly from the cumulative struggles of diverse populations trying to win liberation from capitalism. Parecon owes, in particular, to the anarchist a...

Znet Article Albert: Let's Take the Left Road

Znet Article, April, 06 2006 Michael Albert
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  [The following was submitted as a paper/talk for the Seoul South Korea International Conference on Globalizing Social Transformation and Role of Alternative Media, March 31 - Apriul 1, 2006] The anti corporate globalization movement - the move...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Journalism

Znet Article, March, 20 2006 Michael Albert
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The following is excerpted from the new book from Zed Press, Realizing Hope. See: http://www.zmag.org/realizinghope.html The idea of journalism is not overly complex. Societies involve huge ranges of activity and possibility. Each day events oc...

Znet Article Albert: Still Uncomprehending...

Znet Article, March, 15 2006 Michael Albert
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Schweickart's reply to my reply gives me a gigantic mound o...

Znet Article Albert: Critique Without Comprehension

Znet Article, February, 24 2006 Michael Albert
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     For The review this essay replies to      Please see Schweickart: Nonsense On Stilts Parecon Phe...

Znet Article Albert: Campus Concerns

Znet Article, February, 11 2006 Michael Albert
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Editors: What can we learn from movements on college campuses in the past? Albert: It is a very large question that can't be answered in anything but very broad strokes in a short interview. That said, I think we can learn quite a lot about organ...

Znet Article Albert: Realizing Hope

Znet Article, February, 05 2006 Michael Albert
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1. Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Margartet Thatcher and every bully with a bomb shouts "TINA: There is No Alternative." Realizing Hope shouts b...

Znet Article Albert: Introduction to Realizing Hope

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Michael Albert
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The stupendously influential and celebrated British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote, “[Capitalism] is not a success. It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous - and it doesn't deliver the goods. In ...

Znet Article Albert: Anti Capitalist Strategy

Znet Article, January, 26 2006 Michael Albert
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A viable and desirable strategy for transcending capitalism will certainly include leaving capitalism behind. Capitalism is despicable. It will also include, however, attaining something worthwhile in capitalism's place. What we win must be de...

Znet Article Albert: Venezuela's Path

Znet Article, November, 06 2005 Michael Albert
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Going to Venezuela? There are beautiful waterfalls and mountains. There is rich surf, sand, and sun. But nowadays the biggest attraction is revolution. This October I spent a week in Caracas. That's not much information to work with but for what ...

Znet Article Albert: Argentine Self Management

Znet Article, November, 03 2005 Michael Albert
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This October I spent a week in Buenos Aires, Argentina learning about Argentina's workers movement to recuperate factories. During the recent corporate globalization inspired economic downturns in Argentina, workers confronted disaster when their...

Znet Article Albert: Interview with Michael Albert

Znet Article, October, 10 2005 Michael Albert
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AttacD-AWWO: Can you say something about the process, the discussion that lead to Parecon (participatory economics) and the book that is now also appearing in German translation this fall? Michael Albert: Sure. It was a long process. It started o...

Znet Article Albert: Hannover Talk

Znet Article, September, 12 2005 Michael Albert
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Introduction First, I’d like to thank everyone here and especially the ...

Znet Article Albert: Business As Usual

Znet Article, September, 03 2005 Michael Albert
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The growing outrage over the willful ignoring of warnings and overt cutting of local expenditures that paved the way for New Orleans’ disaster is of course valid. The growing outrage over the unavailability of resources spent on immoral ...

Znet Article Albert: Embark Now

Znet Article, September, 01 2005 Michael Albert
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In the U.S. summer is winding down. Soon 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 of events - but because this i...

Znet Article Albert: There Is An Alternative

Znet Article, July, 27 2005 Michael Albert
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In capitalism, owners together with about a fifth of the population who have highly empowered work decide what is produced, by what means, and with what distribution. Nearly four fifths of the population does largely rote labor, suffers inferior i...

Znet Article Albert: Exploring Parecon

Znet Article, July, 25 2005 Michael Albert
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In a world riddled with suicide bombings, inconclusive conflicts, and terribly selfish politics, it is a relief to see there are people like Michael Albert creatively searching for salves for the ills in our economic system.  With his books "Movin...

Znet Article Albert: WTO, Globalization, and Alternatives

Znet Article, April, 21 2005 Michael Albert
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Q: Michael, the WTO is set to come to Hong Kong for its next ministerial in December 2005. Could you describe briefly just what the WTO is, and also the process of 'globalization' that it fits into? MA: The WTO is an international organization w...

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