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Parecon ZNet
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- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
ZNet Article This is the chapter six of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future -
- Friday, Apr 26, 2013
ZNet Article This is the chapter five of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future -
- Sunday, Apr 14, 2013
ZNet Article This is the chapter four of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future -
- Monday, Apr 01, 2013
ZNet Article This is the chapter three of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future -
- Saturday, Mar 30, 2013
ZNet Article This is the chapter two of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future - All Parecon ZNet

Parecon ZMag
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- Tuesday, Jul 13, 2010
ZMag Article An alternative to capitalism -
- Tuesday, Jul 01, 2008
ZMag Article Nobody, except for a small lunatic fringe, still disputes that human-caused climate chaos endangers all of us. Further, most serious scientific and technical groups who have looked at the question have concluded that we have the technological capa... -
- Wednesday, Jun 01, 2005
ZMag Article S
cience
refers to an accumulated body of information about the components
of the cosmos and to testable claims or theories about how those
components interact, as well as to the processes by which we add
to our in... -
- Tuesday, Mar 01, 2005
ZMag Article I
first
met Ward Churchill when I was working at South End Press 25 years
ago and he submitted a collection of essays revealing why indigenous
people distrust Marxists’ cultural politics. I found Churchill’s
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- Saturday, Jan 01, 2005
ZMag Article E very city is a deeply interconnected web of spatial designs and patterns. From the urban to the suburban, our built environment is carved into commercial and residential areas. Buildings, parking lots, garages, a... - All Parecon ZMag

Parecon Blogs
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- Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Blog Post A plea for organization... -
- Monday, Mar 26, 2012
Blog Post Announcing IOPS web system to see and join! -
- Monday, Feb 20, 2012
Blog Post Last Thursday (Feb 16) my article” A Utopia Liberated from Markets” was published in the radical Swedish weekly Arbetaren (The Worker). -
- Thursday, Nov 24, 2011
Blog Post On November 19th the yearly Socialist Forum took place in Stockholm. This year’s event constituted the 10 year anniversary of the forum with more than 100 talks, seminars and workshops during the day. Parecon Sweden hosted two seminars together wi... -
- Friday, Nov 11, 2011
Blog Post A very brief summary of Parecon's features - All Parecon Blogs

Parecon Commentaries

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- Thursday, Jun 23, 2011
Commentary Vision irresponsibly expects working people to sacrifice time and energy they can apply to surviving the hostile present -
- Saturday, Feb 27, 2010
Commentary I agree that markets for many important reasons must be abolished and replaced. The projects around a participatory society, including participatory economics, certainly rank among the more detailed proposals for a more just successor economy and ... -
- Friday, Dec 25, 2009
Commentary This is part 2 of a three part ZNet commentary series by political economist Robin Hahnel, to be posted Dec. 24-26, 2009. Part 1 was posted yesterday. Part 3 will be available tomorrow. -
- Thursday, Dec 24, 2009
Commentary Part 1 of a three part series exploring the Left and climate change to be run on ZNet Dec. 24-26, 2009 -
- Friday, Nov 06, 2009
Commentary A panel presentation given today, Friday November 6th, 2009 at the 7th international Rethinking Marxism conference, held at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
Commentary In writing 'Black Flame: The revolutionary politics of anarchism and syndicalism', Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt set themselves an ambitious task of writing a history of anarchism. I use the word ambitious mainly because, as Guerin (1970... -
- Saturday, Mar 07, 2009
Commentary A serious economic crisis can force some rethinking of economic and political dogma. The current crisis is serious for most of the world; the IMF is projecting world economic growth of just one half percent this year - the worst since World War II... - All Parecon Commentaries

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- Thursday, Apr 25, 2013
Forum Post Hi Michael...
It would have been nice if he had included onerousness - and if a few paragraphs later, when positing from each to each as a higher norm, be had explored it more fully - Together the two might have impacted subsequent thouts differe... -
- Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013
Forum Post A difficult dispute clarified... Forum Post from one of his latter works, "Critique of the Gotha Programme" Marx weighs in on remuneration:
"But one man is superior to another physically, or mentally, and supplies more labor in the same time, or can labor for a longer time; ... -
- Saturday, Nov 03, 2012
Forum Post Michael Albert's two week speaking tour of the U.K. is now over. It was a whirlwind tour over two weeks starting in Sussex, then London for 5 days then moving up to Cardiff, Birmingham, Lincoln, Leeds, Bradford, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Nottingham. -
- Thursday, Jun 07, 2012
Forum Post I focus here on the changes in Venezuela since my last extended trip there in 2009 which I wrote about for Znet. Base don this trip, I conclude that most people's lives are improving there, that Venezuela deserves our critical support but that the... -
- Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012
Forum Post A proposed script for a short introductory video to IOPS. Forum Post See my draft revision here: http://www.iopsociety.org/forum/the-site/video -
- Tuesday, Mar 27, 2012
Forum Post Announcing IOPS web system to see and join! -
- Saturday, Mar 03, 2012
Forum Post > He links to a Japanese translation of Bob Black's The Abolition of Work, and also covers the 'Primitivists'(John Zerzan) criticism.
With all respect, that stuff is nonsense, being gentle about it...so very sad if he likes it...
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- Friday, Mar 02, 2012
Forum Post Parecon regularly pays homage to its own lineage, both anarchist and otherwise - All Parecon Group Forum

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- Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013
Forum Post The book is great and allow for other frameworks to be implemented for example recently i was able to setup a system that allowed project management software web based rather than hosted locally, many businesses forget about working in t... -
- Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013
Forum Post So, okay, think back to the stadium we are all in. We have arrived at our shared commitments. We elaborate them some and manage risk. We pledge to refine and develop them together. And we ask - how many are on board?
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- Wednesday, Jan 16, 2013
Forum Post In many contexts a guaranteed minimum income, or atlernatively, what can be the same ting, excellent unemployment insurance and social welfare provisions, is a very good reform to fight for. But it is not a general norm for income distribution, no... Forum Post I must confess, I only flew over a few of the discussion pieces and won´t be able to do more than that for a certain time, but I think what many progressive and socially orientated people in Germany have in mind, when they talk about enablin... -
- Friday, Dec 28, 2012
Forum Post Hi M.M.
On the normal state of humanity, I am going strictly by Kropotkin's studies of cooperation and mutual aid in social groupings which included humans at various stages in their hundred thousand years of existence.
While it is possible t... -
- Thursday, Dec 27, 2012
Forum Post
While I am skeptical of anyone talking about a "normal state" for humans, as if there is any scientific basis to make such a claim, the point, assuming for the sake of argument that it is true, is rather moot.
If all it... Forum Post Thanks Michael for a very good explanation of what parecon is and is not . Many of the questions you addressed seemed to deal with the thinking that humans are inherently greedy and sociopathic .
This thinking permeates right into progressi... - All Parecon Comments

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- Saturday, Sep 01, 2012
Video An indepth musical primer to a visionary economic system -
- Thursday, Mar 08, 2012
Video PARECOMIC is a graphic novel about something that affects us all: the system we live in - what's wrong with it, and how we might be able change it for the better -
- Monday, Dec 19, 2011
Video Mark Evans (PPS-UK) at Stockholm Socialist Forum 19th November 2011 -
- Thursday, Oct 06, 2011
Video An evening dedicated to the question of alternatives both beyond capitalism and state socialism, including what the alternative could look like and how we could get there -
- Monday, Sep 12, 2011
Video Robots from another galaxy figure out what happened to life on earth - All Recent Video

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