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Participatory Economics Overview: What, Why, How
A worthy vision for life beyond capitalism acknowledges that neither current nor future society is made up of perfect people, ever wise and ever willing to behave altruistically
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How do we protect our natural world and transition to net-zero carbon, and at the same time, transition to a more just post-capitalist society?
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A review of No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World and Democratic Economic Planning
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U.S. Economy, Omicron, and Moving Forward
We have the opportunity to build and participate in these social movements, in minor and major ways, while educating ourselves and not isolating ourselves alone or in small cliques
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Marxism Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
To highlight past words often limits substance to what the past emphasized. Why not use our own words? Why not let “dead generations” rest in peace?
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Replying to Reviews – Part One
No Bosses was released about two months ago. I want to thank the numerous reviewers and to take their comments seriously by responding
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Review of No Bosses – or actually not a review
My aim here is not so much to write a review of No Bosses as to offer up something to go with it, something which makes fuller sense of it for me
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Post Capitalist Allocation: Participatory Planning
The bottom line is this. Participatory institutions propel us to freely be whoever we wish to be consistent with everyone else being equally free
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A New Economy for a Better World
Overall, No Bosses does an excellent job of answering the questions: “If you don’t like capitalism, what would you replace it with?
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Your Freedom Is A Condition for My Freedom and Vice Versa
Michael Albert and Yanis Varoufakis take part in an ongoing debate
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The more we think about such revolutionary possibilities, the more plausible it is that at least some of our transformative visions will someday come to pass
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Envisioning a world with no bosses
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Postcapitalist Work: Balanced Jobs And Equitable Remuneration
Owners gone. So, who decides what to do and how to do it?
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Reflections on “No Bosses,” Participatory Economics and movements
It’s up to all of us desiring a better world on the ground to walk the walk as well
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3: Equitable, Negotiated, Classless Self Management
The third entry in an extended conversation/debate including Michael Albert and Yanis Varoufakis
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1. Participatory Postcapitalist Vision – Michael Albert, 30th October 2021
Note: This is the opening entry in an ongoing debate...
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Post Capitalist Decision Making
Decision making is multifaceted. The thing decided is not alone important. How we decide also matters
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Albert’s post-capitalist vision includes self-management, diversity, equity, solidarity, and sustainability
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Michael Albert’s ‘No Bosses’: A Review
The left is suffering from a crisis of identity, a crisis over the meaning of what, historically, has been its official alternative to liberalism
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This compact guide to an economy without bosses presents Parecon, a genuine alternative to the current broken and toxic economic system
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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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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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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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New Year, New Era for Progressives and Obama
As 2013 gets underway, progressives need to be here now....
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What Next: Mobilizing or Organizing?
It's clear that most everyone in Wisconsin is opposed to...
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A Vision for 21st Century Leftism
On Tuesday the 8th of February Michael Albert delivered a lecture, followed by Q&A, entitled ‘A Vision for 21st Century Leftism’
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What Kind of Economy Comes After a Socialist Revolution?
Interview on the framework for the economy that comes after a communist or socialist revolution
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This Is Revolution Interviews Albert
Perhaps one of the greatest paradoxes of the modern era is that, while capitalism is in perpetual crisis, there seems to be no alternative
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Alex Callinicos shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March for...
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Building a Powerful Left in the United States
Guests: Norman Solomon, Ralph Nader, Cornel West, and Noam Chomsky...
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The Political Philosophy of Noam Chomsky
He’s one of the most influential intellectuals of our age...
Blogs
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From Each, To Each – Yet Again
A difficult dispute divides some libertarians who advocate "from each...
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...
