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On this page you will find links to some of our Vision/Strategy related material - articles, interviews, debates, books, etc.
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Bookchin: Eyewitnesses to the Rojava revolution: hevaltî and dignity
Interview on how the revolution has impacted everyday life in Rojava
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Albert: RevolutionZ / Next American Revolution Update
The following is a transcription of a very recent session...
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Albert: To Participate or Not To Participate
Because Trump winning would literally threaten civilization, and because Sanders winning would not only stop Trump but take us a good distance in good directions, this election is the most important in my lifetime and perhaps ever - and thus worth serious participation
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Albert: The Twenty Percent Problem
Interview on movements, and the problem of the smarmy professional class
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Lakey: Vision is finally on the rise in U.S. politics
From grassroots movements to presidential hopefuls, the importance of creating visionary plans for change is no longer being ignored
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Albert: Socialism: Ecology or Nothing
This is the twentieth and last essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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Albert: Socialism or Participatory Society
This is the nineteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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Albert: Socialism: Community and Culture
This is the seventeenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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This is the sixteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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Pigott: Extinction Rebellion’s “regenerative culture”
Behind the eye-catching arrest tactics, XR’s culture of conversation, care, crew and eschewing celebrity could be just as transformative
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Albert: Socialism: Some Strategic Implications
This is the fifteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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Albert: Judging Participatory Socialism
This is the fourteenth (and longest) essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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Albert: Socialism: Disputing Participatory Planning
This is the Thirteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
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Ehrenreich: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert on Parecon
Fifteen years ago Barbara Ehrenreich interviewed Michael Albert about participatory economics. The exchange largely addressed matters of allocation, participatory planning versus markets, so we rerun it to accompany the series of essays on socialism now appearing on ZNet
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Albert: Querying Young Chomsky
Eight years ago Michael Albert wrote an essay addressing the anarchist views of Noam Chomsky
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Albert: Socialism: Participatory Planning
This is the twelfth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: Markets, Central Plans, or what?
This is the eleventh essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: Class Rule or Classlessness?
This is the tenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Kolahi: Principles vs. Strategies
Discussing, debating or even disagreeing about strategy is healthy. But doing so respectfully, separate from personal attacks on others’ principles or intentions will help the long-term sustainability of winning meaningful change
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Albert: Socialism: Disputing Balanced Jobs
This is the ninth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: Who Decides What?
This is the seventh in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: The Property Problem
This is the sixth in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: Disputing Pie Slices
Our real question should be is there a whole good society, a whole socialism if you will, that our equitable income can be a workable and effective part of?
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Albert: Socialism: Dividing Society’s Pie
A worthy economic vision should give income for how long one works, for how hard one works, and for the onerousness of the conditions under which one works, as long as one is producing something that is socially valued
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Albert: Socialism: Ethically Judging Current Societies
This is the third in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: Ethical Foundations
This is the second in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: New Direction?
This is the first in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
ZMag Vision/Strategy
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Shea Baird: America Needs A Network of Rebel Cities
The urgent questions that progressive activists in the U.S. are now asking themselves are, not just how to fight back against Trump, but also how to harness the momentum of Bernie Sanders’ primary run to fight for the change
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Albert: Thinking About the Elections
There are countless possible answers as to what one might usefully do in these times. Try to preserve and enlarge the momentum that has developed largely from the Sanders campaign, while also trying to ensure that Trump loses.
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Street: Beyond False Dichotomies
The reality in most cases is that there are many in-between or other alternative options, not just two mutually exclusive ones…. There are two ways in which one can commit a false dilemma. First, one can assume that there are only two (or three, though that case is strictly speaking be a ‘false trilemma’) options when there really are many more
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Solomon: New Year, New Era for Progressives and Obama
As 2013 gets underway, progressives need to be here now....
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Adams: What Next: Mobilizing or Organizing?
It's clear that most everyone in Wisconsin is opposed to...
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Rasmus: Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Repression? Part III
This is the second part of a series by Jack...
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Contributors: Searching for a Democratic Alternative
A proposal for a new International has been circulating online...
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Krauthamer: Worker Occupations & the Future Of Radical Labor
This interview was conducted at Professor Noam Chomsky’s office at...
Video Vision/Strategy
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Albert: Planting Seeds of the Future in the Present
This talk took place on 10th October 2018 at The Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow
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Panitch: Left Alternatives to Social Democracy
Leo Panitch is member of the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University
Audio Vision/Strategy
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Callinicos: March for the Alternative
Alex Callinicos shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March for...
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Authors: Building a Powerful Left in the United States
Guests: Norman Solomon, Ralph Nader, Cornel West, and Noam Chomsky...
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Chomsky: The Political Philosophy of Noam Chomsky
He’s one of the most influential intellectuals of our age...
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Cambridge, MA – Michael Albert of Z Magazine and Prof....
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Grubacic: Wobblies & Zapatistas: Talk at the Anarchist Book Fair
On Sunday at the 14th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book...
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Stevens: Workers’ Councils by Anton Pannekoek: Growth
From the back cover of Workers’ Councils (2003 AK Press...
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Stevens: Workers’ Councils by Anton Pannekoek: Objections
From the back cover of Workers’ Councils (2003 AK Press...
Vision/Strategy Blogs
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Bohmer: Building a Movement for Universal Healthcare
Outline of talk, June 19, 2013 to Physicians for a...
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Albert: From Each, To Each – Yet Again
A difficult dispute divides some libertarians who advocate "from each...
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Bohmer: “The Afghanistan War and the Occupy Movement are Not Over;
Talk at the Event, Celebrating the One Year Anniversary of...
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Wilson: Family Farm Diabetes: Foodies, Farm Justice “Allies” and “The Big Hog”
(Regarding this blog, see also the recent blog by Jen...
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Wilson: Flawed Food History: Farm Justice Missing from Timeline
Introduction This should really be four or five blogs, a...
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Albert: Open Letter from Chomsky, Shiva, Pilger, Santos, and 40 more…
The following self explanatory communication is being sent to many...
Vis. & Strat. Books
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: The Activists Handbook: A Step by Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
Table of Contents Introduction 1: Activism, advocacy and the practice...