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- Thursday, Jan 21, 2010
ZNet Article To be a contender, “21st Century Socialist†vision needs elaboration, advocacy, and program. To improve focus and increase power, worldwide anti-capitalist organizations, projects, and movements need shared coherence and mutual solidarity. To fulfill these needs, Venezuela's President Chavez recently announced to widespread support and also some critical response that a gathering in Caracas this April would establish a new International. -
- Monday, Jan 11, 2010
ZNet Article Michael Albert, one of the originators of Participatory Economics (along with Robin Hahnel), interviewed by parecon advocate Matt Grinder. -
- Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009
ZNet Article This is the Introduction to the Book, Remembering Tomorrow, a memoir by Michael Albert -
- Monday, Dec 21, 2009
ZNet Article I wrote the following hypothetical interview Nov 5, 2008, right after Obama’s election. I sought to address people who thought the new President was going to dramatically change life around the world, perhaps even in radical directions. -
- Friday, Oct 23, 2009
ZNet Article Each Resoc participant has been asked to answer five questions in a succinct interview for the project. All the replies will appear within the Resoc site, starting soon, in the order they arrive. Substantial replies, however, may also appear as ZCom Articles, as in this case. -
- Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009
ZNet Article Interview in Prague Spring... -
- Friday, Aug 14, 2009
ZNet Article Kipping: You have participated in several World Social Forums (WSF). What hopes and expectations did you have? Have they been fulfilled? -
- Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009
ZNet Article There are a number of Solidarity Economy and of Parecon people participating in Resoc. I wonder if we can try to determine the relation of these perspectives, and the possibility for, well, solidarity! I wrote an essay some time back that I would like to now adapt – here – for your attention. I hope you find it worth considering. -
- Tuesday, Jul 14, 2009
ZNet Article Imagine twenty tentative claims about vision and strategy for a participatory society. -
- Thursday, Jun 25, 2009
ZNet Article Michel, I will confine my reply to points of disagreement, or confusion, for brevity, after addressing, again, one overarching issue that seems to inform your entire reaction. But even at that, I apologize that this last reply regarding parecon is quite long. I have cut thousands of words from what I first wrote, but it seems that your confusions, perhaps due to my lack of clarity, are abundant, and I can't help but offer a full set of comments. -
- Saturday, May 23, 2009
ZNet Article For me the issue regarding p2p is how does one pursue it in a manner that pushes toward benefits for all workers and consumers. For that reason, I wonder why p2p doesn’t assert (1) to forego getting paid for socially valuable labor is a severe limitation rather than a defining feature of a good project, and (2) self management requires means of decision making and a division of labor and allocation system that convey appropriate influence to all actors. -
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009
ZNet Article I continue to mainly wonder what you see as the deep benefits of peer production for people's options at work or more generally as well as for production results. That list is needed, it seems to me, so we can assess whether the benefits you see in p2p are generalizable and what would be necessary to attain them, at least as much as possible, in all domains rather than settling with attaining them in a relatively narrow domain and only for a special sector of actors. Indeed, insofar as I understand the benefits, I think parecon does generalize them and deliver them to all, but that's another matter. First, what are the benefits? -
- Friday, May 08, 2009
ZNet Article Continuing the debate on parecon... -
- Monday, May 04, 2009
ZNet Article Michael Albert's First Reply to Peer to Peer -
- Monday, Apr 27, 2009
ZNet Article Opening essay offered as part of an extended exploration of views conducted with Michel Bauwens. Digital Curator and co-founder Peer to Peer Foundation -
- Thursday, Apr 09, 2009
Video The "Alternative Economy Cultures (alt.econ.cult) programme on April 3rd & 5th brings together leading international and Finnish thinkers, cultural practitioners and activists, to present alternative economic visions. -
- Monday, Mar 30, 2009
ZNet Article The development of the Bolivarian Revolution, including using the institutional gains achieved to date to meet human needs and develop popular potentials via humane policies, as well as establishing further institutional gains, his encountered three major obstacles: residual capitalists, residual oligarchic government, and residual mainstream media. -
- Thursday, Mar 26, 2009
ZNet Article A short term program addressing getting out of the current economic crisis... -
- Tuesday, Mar 24, 2009
Audio Michael Albert, on a panel with Julio Chávez, Noam Chomsky and Gregory Wilpert. -
- Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009
ZNet Article Replying to Erik Olin Wright's reactions to parecon -
- Sunday, Mar 08, 2009
ZNet Article Following the Ehrenreich/Fletcher instruction to Reimagine Socialism -
- Thursday, Mar 05, 2009
ZNet Article An essay for a joint exploration/debate of economic vision to be undertaken with Heinz Dieterich -
- Saturday, Feb 21, 2009
Audio Michael Albert interviewed by Ron Daniels... -
- Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009
Commentary The economy is a shambles. True, from the perspective of the poor, it was also a shambles before the current crisis, but things are now so discombobulated that even stratospheric penthouses are leaking cash. Collapse beckons. Urgency dictates policy. Contending constituencies will request, demand, and even battle for changes. Policies will ensue. The question is not will they happen, but will they be good or bad? -
- Monday, Dec 22, 2008
ZNet Article In January 1993 Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky recorded a series of conversations which were later distributed by Z Magazine. ZNet Article In January 1993 Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky recorded a series of conversations which were later distributed by Z Magazine. ZNet Article In January 1993 Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky recorded a series of conversations which were later distributed by Z Magazine... -
- Thursday, Dec 04, 2008
ZNet Article I first became politically active in 1966. By 1969—it was a fast moving time—I had a pretty well developed political perspective. For a couple of decades, along with trying to develop new media institutions and some other left projects, I had a pretty constant consciousness-raising agenda. It seemed to me (and my writing partner, Robin Hahnel) that when people became politically committed they generally gravitated to class analysis and marxism, assuming they became ideological at all. That political trajectory seemed to us to involve two problems that we tried to address. ZNet Article This Fall Michael Albert went to Canada for some talks and did an interview with the excellent Canadian Magazine, Canadian Dimension. Here is an essentially verbatim transcript they prepared for publication in Canada. ZNet Article Consider this: eight million unemployed, 35 million poor, 20 million “hungry,” 400,000 homeless, a third of government expenditures financing militarism. IBM controls 80 percent in computers; GE and Westinghouse control 85 percent in heavy electrical equipment; Boeing and McDonnell Douglas control 80 percent in aircraft; 10 out of 14,500 banks own 34 percent of all assets. Workers sell their ability to produce and as a reward suffer subordination, lies, chicanery, and manipulation. Ambulance-chasing is a profitable professional pastime. Commodity fetishism is the only respected way of life. - All My Recent ZNet/ZMag
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My Recent Blogs
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- Thursday, Jan 21, 2010
Blog Post Please take the Resco Poll - now! -
- Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009
Blog Post Reactions to Chavez's call for a new International... -
- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
Blog Post Z Financial Situation... -
- Tuesday, Mar 24, 2009
Blog Post Addition to Nation discussion - by Venezuela Consulate Head Carol Delgado -
- Saturday, Mar 14, 2009
Blog Post Commenting on not being involved... -
- Thursday, Mar 05, 2009
Blog Post Various online innovations currently being programmed, described -
- Thursday, Feb 05, 2009
Blog Post Judging economic policies during a crisis - and other times too... -
- Tuesday, Dec 23, 2008
Blog Post The commitments and methods of UFPJ... -
- Sunday, Nov 30, 2008
Blog Post The Nation goes for the ad dollar... -
- Monday, Nov 24, 2008
Blog Post Getting going with Obama...or against him... - All My Recent Blogs
My Recent Video
Round, round, get around... -
- Thursday, Apr 09, 2009
Video The "Alternative Economy Cultures (alt.econ.cult) programme on April 3rd & 5th brings together leading international and Finnish thinkers, cultural practitioners and activists, to present alternative economic visions. -
- Friday, Aug 01, 2008
Video Blue Stockings Bookstore, NYC... -
- Thursday, Jul 31, 2008
Video Blue Stockings Bookstore NYC... -
- Wednesday, Jul 30, 2008
Video Gathering at Blue Stockings Bookstore NYC. -
- Monday, Apr 21, 2008
Video Last video of panel / Q&A... -
- Sunday, Apr 20, 2008
Video Michael Albert on "Democratic Planning" & Brian Dominick on "strategy against state repression" - All My Recent Video
Recent AudioSome Instructionals
Twenty years of schoolin...
Some of My Books
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Some ZSpace FriendsGotta find one face... All My Friends Michael Albert's Bio Info: Michael Albert is a founder and current member ... moreMichael Albert is a founder and current member of the staff of Z Magazine as well as System Operator of Z Magazine`s web system: ZCom (www.zmag.org).Albert`s radicalization occurred during the 1960s. His political involvements, starting then and continuing to the present, have ranged from local, regional, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet, and to working on all these projects, writing for various publications and publishers, giving public talks, etc.
His personal interests, outside the political realm, focus on general science reading (with an emphasis on physics, math, and matters of evolution and cognitive science), computers, mystery and thriller/adventure novels, sea kayaking, and the more sedentary but no less challenging game of GO.
Albert is also the author of numerous books. Most recently these include: Remembering Tomorrow (Seven Stories Press), Realizing Hope (Zed Press) and Parecon: Life After Capitalism (Verso).
Many of Albert`s articles are stored in ZCom and can be accessed there along with hundreds of other Z Magazine and ZNet articles essays, interviews, etc.
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Some Resoc Essays
I'll let you be in my dream, if... -
- Thursday, Jan 21, 2010
ZNet Article To be a contender, “21st Century Socialist†vision needs elaboration, advocacy, and program. To improve focus and increase power, worldwide anti-capitalist organizations, projects, and movements need shared coherence and mutual solidarity. To fulfill these needs, Venezuela's President Chavez recently announced to widespread support and also some critical response that a gathering in Caracas this April would establish a new International. -
- Friday, Oct 23, 2009
ZNet Article Each Resoc participant has been asked to answer five questions in a succinct interview for the project. All the replies will appear within the Resoc site, starting soon, in the order they arrive. Substantial replies, however, may also appear as ZCom Articles, as in this case. -
- Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009
ZNet Article Interview in Prague Spring... -
- Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009
ZNet Article There are a number of Solidarity Economy and of Parecon people participating in Resoc. I wonder if we can try to determine the relation of these perspectives, and the possibility for, well, solidarity! I wrote an essay some time back that I would like to now adapt – here – for your attention. I hope you find it worth considering. -
- Thursday, Jul 16, 2009
ZNet Article What sorts of decision-making institutions and practices would be appropriate for a good society? -
- Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009
ZNet Article The present essay reviews in summary form the key ideas for "cultural liberation" and then discusses the consequences of these ideas for the concept of self-determination, specifically national self-determination, in our world and in a good society. -
- Tuesday, Jul 14, 2009
ZNet Article Being active in the anti-war movement, supporting eviction blockades in my city, working with youth who are surviving oppressive schools and violence on the streets, I often wonder how I can justify taking the time to imagine what sex, family, gender, and caregiving might be like in a better world. Isn't it frivolous fantasizing in the context of humanity hemorrhaging? ZNet Article Imagine twenty tentative claims about vision and strategy for a participatory society. -
- Friday, May 15, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to Reimagining Society: Participatory Planning -
- Thursday, Nov 13, 2008
ZNet Article A French writer, sympathetic to anarchism, wrote in the 1890s that "anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything" -- including, he noted those whose acts are such that "a mortal enemy of anarchism could not have done better." - All Some Resoc Essays
Memoir Online...  The entire book Remembering Tomorrow, a memoir of four decades of left experiences and history, is available via the left menu links, a chapter at a time! Some Projects
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