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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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
Albert: Solidarity and Participatory Economics
Znet Article, September, 13 2006
Michael Albert
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Solidarity and Participatory Economics
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Albert: Class or Multitude
Znet Article, April, 14 2005
Michael Albert
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The title of our panel here at the Left Forum in New York City, is “Class or Multitude?†By way of answering, I think we need class concepts, but I don’t think we need the concept multitude. Here’s why. Cla...
Albert: Raise Your Voice But Keep Your Head Down
Znet Article, February, 09 2005
Michael Albert
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I first met Ward Churchill when I was working at South End Press twenty five years ago and Ward submitted his first book which was about Marxism and Native Americans. It was a collection of essays which revealed why indigenous people distrust Marx...
Albert: Moving Left Is Always Better
Znet Article, December, 18 2004
Michael Albert
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When Democratic Party leaders move to the right, astute leftists qui...
Albert: Life After Capitalism - And Now Too
Znet Article, December, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Why have my frequent co-author Robin Hahnel and I devoted great time and energy to developing, describing, and now advocating an economic model to replace capitalism? What are the model's features? How does it differ from oth...
