Debates
Accessing our Debates
Debates on ZNet typically involve a few exchanges with each essay or respponse to it having its own file with its own link. There are one or more debates for each several broad topic areas = U.S. Politics, International Relations, Globalization/Resistance, Parecon/Vision, Left Ideology, Pomo/Science, and Tactics/Strategy. You click the links that appea rbelow to accessa pages that link to the many parts of each debate.
The Left & Climate ChangeRobin Hahnel and Patrick Bond debate Left strategy and orientation towards climate |
Parecon and Peer to PeerAlbert and Bauwens explore the relations between peer to peer and parecon |
HorowitzThree rounds of debate: Tim Wise/Horowitz debate race and racism, Robert Chrisman, Robert Allen, Herman, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, and Albert answer Horowitz on reparations, and Albert/Horowitz debate on economics. |
Debating Global WarmingCockburn, Monbiot and others debate issues of climate change... |
Chomsky Vs. DershowitzDebating the Mideast |
Iraq Election DebateWhat should the attitude of the anti-war movement be toward the Iraqi election scheduled for the end of January? |
Anti-Semitism?Debates and Explorations on Anti-semitism. Includes Ed Herman, Michael Albert, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Judy Rebick, Justin Podur, Stephen Zunes... |
HitchensAlbert, Edward Herman, Tariq Ali, Jeffrey Sommers, and Hitchens |
Balkans & KosovoGrubacic vs Plavsic... |
Parecon & Anarchist CommunismAlbert & Price... |
Lippman/HermanDebate over U.S. policies, Kosovo, etc. |
Global & Domestic EconomicsDebate between George Monbiot and Michael Albert regarding anti-globalization and anti capitalist economic goals and methods. |
Social Ecology DebateDebate between Peter Staudenmaier and Michael Albert regarding social ecology and participatory economics. |
Socialism DebateDebates from New Politics Magazine over Albert essay with Barry Finger and Marvin Mandel |
Schweickart Versus AlbertDavid Schweickart's review claiming parecon is ludicrous and Albert's reply and ensuing exchanges |
Parecon & Libertarian MunicipalismAn essay and long exchange with numerous participants about parecon and Libertarian Municipalism. Main folks: Albert and Peter Staudenmaier |
Marxism, Socialism, PareconDebate between Alex Callinicos of the British SWP and Michael Albert regarding political theory, vision, strategy... |
Marxism DebateDebate between Alan Maass and Michael Albert regarding Marxism's contemporary relevance. |
AnarchismDebate over Michael Albert's essay titled "Anarchism," mostly with primitivists... |
Post Modernism/Science Etc.This is an extensive section of about twenty essays and exchanges/debates. Contributors include Albert, Chomsky, Herman, and Ehrenreich, among others. |
Conspiracy TheoryVarious essays critical of conspiracy theory, with some debate. |
"Feminism"Lydia Sargent satire essays critiquing confused feminisms. |
Pollitt/MediaAlbert and Katha Pollit debate media, the Nation, etc. |
Consensus?Primarily Albert and ZNeter Brian Dominick debate the merits of consensus decision making. |