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Welcome to Parecon Watch,

Parecon -  short for Participatory Economics - is a vision for how to conduct economic affairs consistent with liberatory values including solidarity, diversity, equity, self management, ecological sustainability, peace, and classlessness.

On this page you can find quite a lot of material about parecon, and links to other pages that in turn have much more, as well.

If there is anything you think that should be directly linked from here, which is not, please let us know.

Some In Depth Parecon
images-150 Albert/Hahnel: Looking Forward Hahnel: Bellamy and Vision Albert: Rimini Speech Parecon (online book) Thinking Forward Moving Forward
Latest Parecon
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    Podur: Envisioning a Future Participatory Society

    A review of RPS 2044: An Oral History of the Next American Revolution, by Michael Albert

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    Sandstrom: Accounting in a Democratic Economy

    There is a value in discussing visions and demonstrating that alternatives to the capitalist economic system can be expressed in more concrete terms as well, and not only in high-flying utopian rhetoric

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    Albert: Class

    Chapter twenty of the book RPS/2044: An Oral History of the next American Revolution.

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    Albert: 20 Draft Theses on Liberation

    The theses offered seek seek discussion and refinement to advance five overarching values: Self managed decision making; Equitably distributed benefits and circumstances; Mutual aid and empathy; Sustainable ecological; and social diversity Internationalism

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    Albert: RPS Backdrop

    What I find myself troubled by - indeed, even more than troubled by - is that we who went through the last fifty years have been so bad at communicating useful lessons to today’s young folks

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Parecon Interviews
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    Podur: Envisioning a Future Participatory Society

    A review of RPS 2044: An Oral History of the Next American Revolution, by Michael Albert

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    Sandstrom: Accounting in a Democratic Economy

    There is a value in discussing visions and demonstrating that alternatives to the capitalist economic system can be expressed in more concrete terms as well, and not only in high-flying utopian rhetoric

  • avatar

    Albert: Class

    Chapter twenty of the book RPS/2044: An Oral History of the next American Revolution.

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    Albert: 20 Draft Theses on Liberation

    The theses offered seek seek discussion and refinement to advance five overarching values: Self managed decision making; Equitably distributed benefits and circumstances; Mutual aid and empathy; Sustainable ecological; and social diversity Internationalism

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Some Parecon Debates

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Debating the Young Chomsky
Parecon and Peercommony
Parecon and Peer to Peer
Global & Domestic Economics
Parecon & Anarchocommunism
Social Ecology & Parecon
Parecon & Libertarian Municipalism
Anarchism
Market Socialism & Parecon
Marxism, Socialism, Parecon
Marxism Debate
Socialism Debate

Beyond Economy

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Sargent: Post Sexist Society
Podur: Life After Racism
Peters: Kinship Vision
Shalom: Visionary Pol
Shalom: Future Pol
Albert: Parecon & Parsoc
Albert: 7 Reasons for Parecon

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Parecon Blogs
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ParMusic

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Lonnie Atkinson's
Parecon Rap Album:

Intro /  Bury TINA
Class Dismissed / No Gangsters
...and much more!

"This is what we're talkin about..."
                         Michael Albert

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Some Anarchist Criticisms

images-5Various anarchists have at times registered concerns about parecon. The following four essays address these concerns.

Vision Per Se? -should we have any institutional vision at all
Origin and Style? - questioning parecon's source and approach
Too Capitalist? - questioning pareconish remuneration and allocation
Structural and Strategic Flaws? - addresses concerns about strategy

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