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As the twentieth century draws to a close, what have we learned about how we should manage our economic affairs? What should we do if we had the opportunity to start again?
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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 gather activists from around the world to share...
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Not surprisingly, the swift unraveling of the global economy combined with the ascent to the U.S. presidency of an African-American liberal has left millions anticipating that the world is on the...
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A Case-Study of Black Panther Accomplishments in Public Health, Governmental Response, and Thoughts on a Better Structure for Pursuing Public Health-Related Human Rights Concerns.
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During the campaign, then-Senator Obama provoked a media flurry and right-wing outrage over his comment to Joe the Plumber about "spreading the wealth around." They told us that this view was...
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The one issue that remains the main problem in post-colonial Africa is the failure of African revolutionary movements to articulate a truly liberatory political and economic vision.
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In 2004, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez created a movement named the consejos comunales (communal councils) aimed at creating more responsive local governance by handing local budgetary and...
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We asked sustainers to read a ZNet article by Jessica Azulay on “Parecon in Practice” then on a chosen day and time, login to chat with her about it.
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A parecon workplace is possible. I have experienced one, and now I believe we can overcome capitalism.
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Not everyone takes an interest in economics, obviously. Nor do they need to, in general. But anti-capitalist activists do have a special responsibility to be well-informed about what is happening...
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The deepening financial crisis in the U.S. forces the neoconservatives to reverse their policies.
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The 25th annual World Food Day, marked on 16 October, was an occasion whose arrival and passing received little media attention or governmental fanfare. Evidently, much of the world media and...
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Few books inspire not only imagination but also the desire for a new and better world. The compilation of essays Chris Spannos edited in Real Utopia achieves just that.
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I live chat on strategy for a new society with Brian Dominick...
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Wayne and I agree on the need to address all dimensions of life, though I perhaps regard kinship, culture, and polity more on a par with economy and class than Wayne does a difference that...
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Interview with Ceasefire Magazine...
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Much of our difference is that Michael Albert is a model-builder and I am not. This causes us to talk past each other, despite the wide range of things on which we do agree. Michael and other...
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Carlos Lanz is an advisor to the Ministry of Education and former director of the Aluminum processing plant Alcasa, which was one of the first experiments in creating a socialist enterprise in...
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To avoid going in circles, I will try to be brief
except on the matter of self-sufficiency and scale, which seems to concern many people on the left, particularly anarchists and Greens.
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In his response, Michael asks further questions. To keep my further response manageable, I will focus on three issues: decentralization, libertarian communism, and anti-electoralism...
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You remain troubled that parecon doesn't aim for self-sufficiency...
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The first topic of mine which you focus on is that of decentralization. You reject my idea that “regions and even communities” should “try to produce as much as possible of what they need on...
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On what do our two tendencies agree? Quite a lot. While supporting struggles for reforms, we agree that our goal should be a revolution which gets rid of capitalism and all forms of oppression...
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Debate continued...
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Wanting parecon for the economy implies a commitment to justice consistent with wanting revolutionary transformation of other spheres of life as well. To overcome cynicism, guide practice, deepen...
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Anarchism is the end of all forms of domination, hierarchy, and oppression. It opposes capitalism, white supremacy, male supremacy, homophobia, imperialism, militarism, environmental destruction,...
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Early in the twentieth century most socialists thought that after capitalism was overthrown workers in different enterprises and consumers in different communities would plan their activities...
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At some point a revolution will transform the U.S. economy, polity, kinship, and culture - and similar revolutions will transform other countries too. Such a revolutionary process will include...
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Jean Bricmont's concept “humanitarian imperialism” succinctly captures a dilemma that has faced Western leaders and the Western intellectual community since the collapse of the Soviet Union....
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It is understandable that, despite the wealth of material about participatory society, no one has written at length of the legal vision suggested by this new society. Lawyers are not a sexy subject...
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Michael Albert, along with Greg Wilpert, is attending a conference in Venezuela this weekend. He will be conducting a series of interviews there, with responsible people about economics, politics,...
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Interview focusing on Venezuela and ZNet...
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