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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
Latest Parecon
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Albert: The Next American Revolution & Revolutionary Participatory Society 2044
Source: Politics Art Roots Culture – Media Michael Albert is...
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Albert: A Class Between Labor and Capital?
What the two class view leaves out, however, is that capitalists are not the only class that has major relative advantages
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Reviewer: Participatory Economics Review
Radical Reviewer reviews Michael Albert's Parecon: Participatory Economics: Life After Capitalism
Parecon Interviews
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Albert: A Class Between Labor and Capital?
What the two class view leaves out, however, is that capitalists are not the only class that has major relative advantages
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This is how it stands in my view: participatory economics, or parecon, is a fascinating, tantalizing thought experiment, but I can’t say with any confidence that it is something that can function in actual world
Some Parecon Debates
Beyond Economy
Parecon Blogs
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Sandstrom: A Vision Liberated from Markets
Last Thursday (Feb 16) my article” A Utopia Liberated from...
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Sandstrom: Parecon Sweden and PPS-UK at Stockholm Socialist Forum
On November 19ththe yearly Socialist Forum took place in Stockholm....
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Dominick: Small is Beautiful… Can Big Be, Too?
[Cross-posted from Future Economy Blog.] Recently I’ve noticed economic observers...
ParMusic
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
Recent ParVideo
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Albert: The Next American Revolution & Revolutionary Participatory Society 2044
Source: Politics Art Roots Culture – Media Michael Albert is... See more →
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Albert: Participatory Economics
Albert on Nial Elkim’s podcast discussing Participatory Economics See more →
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Reviewer: Participatory Economics Review
Radical Reviewer reviews Michael Albert's Parecon: Participatory Economics: Life After Capitalism See more →
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Albert: The Financial Crash and the Always-Crisis
Even before the financial and economic crisis in 2008 capitalism has been in crisis See more →
Some Anarchist Criticisms
Various 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