Newest Resoc Essays
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- Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
ZNet Article Your disagreement with me on the point that we have partners on the Left in Israel who are fighting the very oppressions you speak of, seems to be a disagreement in degree, not in form. That is, you seem to be saying that the Israeli Left is too s... -
- 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 ... -
- Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009
ZNet Article I want a self-managed, solidaristic, decentralized, sustainable, and participatory economy. I think this means that we need an economy with... ZNet Article Response to Interview Questions For Reimagining Society Project -
- Thursday, Dec 03, 2009
ZNet Article I think we differ mainly in our understanding of the Zionist mindset. For me that internal debates inside Zionism are crucial for the Jewish community in Israel provided it succeeded in carrying on living while ignoring totally the Palestine reali... -
- Friday, Oct 30, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications -
- 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 ZC... -
- Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009
ZNet Article Interview in Prague Spring... -
- Wednesday, Oct 07, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications -
- Saturday, Oct 03, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications -
- Monday, Sep 28, 2009
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- Sunday, Sep 20, 2009
ZNet Article I clear the ground for my own vision of Left renewal and social transformation (to be the subject of Part Two of this essay, to follow), by analyzing the organic crisis of the Left as a global movement. The historical decline of the Left, which i... -
- Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications. -
- Thursday, Sep 10, 2009
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- Monday, Sep 07, 2009
ZNet Article There is a problem with the concept of civil society... -
- Sunday, Sep 06, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications -
- Saturday, Sep 05, 2009
ZNet Article A Glimpse at Participatory Education -
- Friday, Sep 04, 2009
ZNet Article [Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications.] -
- Thursday, Sep 03, 2009
ZNet Article Maximum utilization and rational distribution of all physical, psychic and spiritual resources is the foundation for a new socio-economic paradigm based on spiritual values that offers the world a much brighter future than either capitalism or com... -
- Wednesday, Sep 02, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications... -
- Tuesday, Sep 01, 2009
ZNet Article A strategic response to today's changing political environment based on a politics of radical possibility as an antidote to the paradigm of learned helplessness. Addresses why the left has been unable to think strategically and how to overcome it. -
- Sunday, Aug 23, 2009
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- Friday, Aug 21, 2009
ZNet Article I'm delighted and flattered to be part of the exchanges about efficacious ways to move forward so that we can emerge somehow from the insanity. I wish I could be more optimistic about fundamental change. -
- Thursday, Aug 20, 2009
ZNet Article This paper wants to look at scenarios emerging out of the present economic and ecological crisis for capitalist and anticapitalist forces alike. The first premise is that the 21st century's ecological question is trumping the 20th century's social... ZNet Article A reply to "Taking the 'Social' in Socialism Seriously," by Erik Olin Wright. -
- Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009
ZNet Article A Reply to Michael Hardt's "Politics of the Common" -
- Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009
ZNet Article Barbara Epstein's article “Why the US Left is Weak - and What to Do About It†offers lots of provocative points, both implicitly in the way that she tells history and explicitly through her recommendations. Although I disagree with some aspect... -
- Monday, Aug 17, 2009
ZNet Article We describe in this essay how the society we imagine will look like and how we can reach it. -
- Wednesday, Aug 12, 2009
ZNet Article A decade or so ago, during the European humanitarian adventure in the Balkans, Michael Nicholson, an eminent British journalist, wrote in his "Natasha's Story" that "The ferocity of the Balkan peoples has at times been so primitive that anthropolo... -
- Monday, Aug 10, 2009
ZNet Article A twenty first century revolutionary left organisation established to facilitate the building of a popular movement should do all it can to learn lessons from its own history. - All Newest Resoc Essays
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The Resoc PollThe Resoc Poll is available for all Z Writers, Sustainers, and Free members to take, though it was conceived as part of the Reimagining Society Project and will be used in that project to guide further discussion, debate, etc. See the left menu for additional information - or... Take the Poll Now
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- Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010
Blog Post I don't understand Question 33 from the Vision and Strategy poll, and I'm looking for an example to illustrate what is meant. -
- Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010
Blog Post Several attempts have been made since the 60s to unify, theoretically, the diverse social movements, with the hope that this will aid the aborted fulfillment of the radical promise of the 1960s. The approach taken here to this quest for unificatio... -
- Thursday, Jan 21, 2010
Blog Post Please take the Resco Poll - now! -
- Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010
Blog Post Never lose sight that a small contribution is enormous compared to no contribution. -
- Monday, Jan 11, 2010
Blog Post A brief post about my experience taking the Resoc Poll -
- Thursday, Dec 17, 2009
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- Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009
Blog Post I want a self-managed, solidaristic, decentralized, sustainable, and participatory economy. I think this means that we need an economy with... -
- Tuesday, Dec 08, 2009
Blog Post Pat Korte's Resoc Interview -
- Thursday, Dec 03, 2009
Blog Post Paul Street's Resoc Interview -
- Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009
Blog Post Reactions to Chavez's call for a new International... -
- Monday, Nov 30, 2009
Blog Post Bertell Ollman's Resoc Interview -
- Tuesday, Nov 24, 2009
Blog Post Andrej Grubacic's Resoc Interview - All Some Resoc Interviews
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- Thursday, Mar 04, 2010
Forum Post "Regarding culture and community vision for a new society" not the militaryquestion 31 mentions "institutions that ensure people can have multiple cultural and social identifies where which identity is most important to any particul... -
- Monday, Feb 22, 2010
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- Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
Forum Post The defenders of US Imperialism, Zionism, Neo-Fascism have their well-known devices for their objectives. At least, some of us know that well well.But what a 'cultural exchange' or a boycott with a peverted form of Hitleris... Forum Post what were arguments against cultural boycott of aparteid SA? The same or different? Forum Post what were arguments against cultural boycott of aparteid SA? The same or different? Forum Post In his reply to Ilan Pappe, Yotam Marom presents a long-term perspective on how the present-day Left, globally weak and ineffective to influence the course of events, can at some future stage become strong by the political ... -
- Sunday, Feb 14, 2010
Forum Post Peter Waterman sez: This is an edited extract from a piece by a well-known WSF and Trotskyist activist. But it seems to me relevant to Michael's proposal on a New International. For the complete text and footnotes, click on the CADTM URL below:&nb... -
- Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010
Forum Post No problem, Peter...hope it has been useful. -
- Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010
- All Some Resoc Comments
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Project Description Welcome to the
Reimagining Society Project
Reimagining Society was begun April 2009 and is hosted by ZCom but the contents are freely available for linking or posting on any site that wishes to reproduce all or part of the contents.
Links in the menu to the left provide more information...
Some Resoc ParticipantsQuotes
" I would like to believe that people have an instinct for freedom, that they really want to control their own affairs. They don?t want to be pushed around, ordered, oppressed, etc., and they want a chance to do things that make sense, like constructive work in a way they control, or maybe control together with others. I don?t know any way to prove this. It?s really a hope about what human beings are like, a hope that if social structures change sufficiently, those aspects of human nature will be realized."
-- Noam Chomsky
"In this situation, with both long-term biological and day-to-day economic survival in doubt, the only relevant question is: do we have a plan, people? Can we see our way out of this and into a just, democratic, sustainable (add your own favorite adjectives) future? ... Let's just put it right out on the table: we don't.... But...the absence of a plan, or at least some sort of deliberative process for figuring out what to do, is no longer an option."
-- Barbara Ehrenreich
& Bill Fletcher
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