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Parecon ZNet
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- Sunday, Apr 22, 2012
ZNet Article Interview on participatory economics and anti-capitalist practice and ideology -
- Sunday, Apr 15, 2012
ZNet Article Having a way of allocating income, and thus a guiding norm for income allocation, and a means of accomplishing that norm, whether implicit or explicit, is simply unavoidable -
- Monday, Apr 02, 2012
ZNet Article Our movements need to be participatory and classless from the start. They need to be examples to people of the kind of society we are trying to win -
- Sunday, Mar 11, 2012
ZNet Article This essay is an afterward in the book The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics -
- 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 - 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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Parecon Group ForumVisit the Parecon Group Forum Recent posts direclty to that forum and comments on material explicitly tagged for the Parecon Group written by Parecon Group members appear here. As a result the forum provides a vehicle for discussion among group members. -
- 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 Forum Post Toshimaru Ogura's review of Parecon. He is responding to an Anti-Capitalism Even at the World Social Forum. I haven't read the entire piece, one long paragraph is about how your councils aren't new, so it's a shame he's only re... Forum Post The book Parecon us the most widely translated - but I can't remember if there was a version in Japanese. I am pretty sure there was supposed to be - but don't know if it ever really happened. Obviously I would love for it to happen - and ... -
- Thursday, Mar 01, 2012
Forum Post Hello Justin,
I hope we can agree that for anything we say or do, the issue is, what is the impact on our efforts to win change - and ultimately a new society.
There are certainly things we say and or do that have a different basis and different... -
- Sunday, Feb 26, 2012
Forum Post These type studies always seem odd to me. Humans can obviously be solidaritous and caring, but can also be brutal and nasty. Booth are visible, therefore undeniable. Institutions that provoke the former and curtail the latter are obviously possib... -
- Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011
Forum Post There's now a video available of the seminar “Thinking about Classlessness: An introduction to Participatory Economics” held by Mark Evans (PPS UK) in Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJgXZTZdtcE&feature=youtu.be - All Parecon Group Forum

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- Monday, May 21, 2012
Forum Post I just love this piece.
Have just spent much of the day wondering why so many of our friends in Samos are so fearful about taking action and so pessimistic about what we can achieve together. Then I read this. It speaks so strongly to what ... -
- Saturday, May 19, 2012
Forum Post You have to be a sustainer to comment on this. You became a sustainer to trash the site? The least you could do is to come up with an articulate argument against the Parecon proposal. -
- Friday, May 18, 2012
Forum Post We are on our way there. We just need some positive examples of non-authoritarian workplaces, schools and housing communities. We need more people with these views talking to each another. -
- Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Forum Post Just a note because this looks like it is an important document. In the first of the "views" section of capitalism: I think you should take off the "in" in the second sentence after "consume." -
- Sunday, Apr 22, 2012
Forum Post I recently read Pyotr Kropotkin's: " Mutual Aid : A Factor Of Evolution and he went chapter after chapter from insects to humanity from the beginning of our emergence on what the title implies.
His research shoots down the dog-eat-... -
- Wednesday, Apr 18, 2012
Forum Post
Bill,
You say that, "I think it's only reasonable to suggest that many people will enter into such arrangements under parecon and will in fact have to."
If I am right, you mean people choosing to collectively consume ... -
- Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012
Forum Post Hi Michael.
I wasn't suggesting that what I was attempting to describe or explain was contrary to parecon. But it is a scenario that circumvents the ill thought protestations of the article you were focussed on and an approach I used on anoth... - All Parecon Comments

Recent Video-
- 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 -
- Tuesday, Sep 06, 2011
Video Prof. Wormgardener comes down on Marsha for not praising capitalism in an assignment - All Recent Video

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