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Date Joined: 2nd April 2012
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PART 4 OF PARTICIPATORY ECONOMICS: ADDRESSING CRITICISMS

By Michael Albert (CONTINUED FROM PARTS 1,2 & 3)   Participatory Planning Will Destroy Efficiency This critic says having a participatory economy will cause our economic lives to involve too much waste of effort. We will…

PART 4 OF PARTICIPATORY ECONOMICS: ADDRESSING CRITICISMS

By Michael Albert (CONT 1,2 & 3)   Participatory Planning Will Destroy Efficiency This critic says having a participatory economy will cause our economic lives to involve too much waste of effort. We will either fail to produce…

PART 3 OF PARTICIPATORY ECONOMICS: ADDRESSING CRITICISMS

By Michael Albert (CONTINUED FROM PARTS 1&2)   Parecon Sacrifices Privacy and Imposes Frenzy Any economy is on at least some counts good, of course, but if that economy is really bad on other counts, it can lose much of its…

PART 2 OF PARTICIPATORY ECONOMICS PART 2: ADDRESSING CRITICISMS

By Michael Albert  (CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS BLOG-DIDN'T SEEM TO WANT TO FIT IT ALL INTO ONE)   Parecon is Ahistorical These critics say that parecon is detached from history and displays a curious disregard for like-minded voices…

PART 1 OF PARTICIPATORY ECONOMICS PART 2: ADDRESSING CRITICISMS

Participatory Economics Part 2: Addressing Criticisms   By Michael Albert      Part One of this three part treatment of Participatory Economics discussed Origins, Heritage, and Substance of the vision. Here, in Part…

PARTICIPATORY ECONOMICS PART 1

Participatory Economics Part 1: Origins, Heritage, and Substance   By Michael Albert  October 10, 2015 Sanders, Corbyn, Syriza, Podemos – wars, poverty, assassinations, exclusions, occupations, depredations – I have…

WHY DO WE LOSE PART 2 - VARIOUS

Why Do We Lose, 2   By Various Contributors  September 20, 2015Change text size: [ A+ ] / [ A- ] Posted in: Activism, Vision/Strategy | 1 comment Not long ago I published an article titled Why Do We Lose. The “we” referred to…

WHY DO WE LOSE - MICHAEL ALBERT

Why Do We Lose?   By Michael Albert Source: teleSUR English  September 2, 2015Change text size: [ A+ ] / [ A- ] Posted in: Activism, Reimagining Society | Comments: 3 Financialized colonialism…

WELL WORTH A READ

    Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-management By Tom Wetzel [This is a reply to the article "We Are More than We Eat" by Odessa Steps in The Northeastern Anarchist #10. These articles are part of a debate on…

OTHER-DOING, REVOLUTIONARY CRACKS AND CRACK POTS.

  Below a review by the Psychedelic Bolsheviks of Eugene Chadbourne's concert at Cafe Oto in London. The link for those interested https://psychedelicbolshevik.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/a-slice-of-marmite-for-a-slice-of-toast-a-review-of-eugene-chadbourne/…

THE MYTH OF THE DOLE BLUDGER

A little video someone alerted me too and suggested I post. It is very funny, particularly for antipodean IOPS members but is very much relevant to most places. Enjoy, I did.

LIFE, WAR AND ORGANIZING

Posted at Z Commentaries https://zcomm.org/zcommentary/life-war-and-organizing/ Life, War, and Organizing   By Vincent Emanuele & Michael Albert  February 12, 2015  Posted in: Activism, Reimagining Society, US, Vision/Strategy, War…

A MIXED BAG

JUST ANOTHER RUPTURE AMID PARENTHESES (NOWHERE) Everything does seem to fail, doesn’t it. Things pop up then disappear. Some look promising but kind of go nowhere. Nowhere seems to be the destination of so many things. One could try to…

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Ecological Action, Reconstruction & Theory Hub

The interim IOPS Vision seeks the facilitating of the 'ecologically sound reconstruction of society'. E.A.R.T.H. is  an international affinity group, open discussion forum and resource library focussed…