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- Monday, Dec 19, 2011
Video Mark Evans (PPS-UK) at Stockholm Socialist Forum 19th November 2011 -
- Monday, Nov 21, 2011
ZNet Article Does saying we are the 99% obscure more than it reveals. Will it ultimately misdirect more than focus the movement? -
- Monday, Nov 07, 2011
ZNet Article A good economy must improve the quality of work life -
- Monday, Oct 17, 2011
ZNet Article A discussion about Parecon, media, and the Occupy movement -
- Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011
ZNet Article Corporations bear the same resemblance to democracy that killing fields bear to peace - All Parecon ZNet

Parecon ZMag
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- Tuesday, Jul 13, 2010
ZMag Article An alternative to capitalism -
- Tuesday, Jul 01, 2008
ZMag Article Nobody, except for a small lunatic fringe, still disputes that human-caused climate chaos endangers all of us. Further, most serious scientific and technical groups who have looked at the question have concluded that we have the technological capa... -
- Wednesday, Jun 01, 2005
ZMag Article S
cience
refers to an accumulated body of information about the components
of the cosmos and to testable claims or theories about how those
components interact, as well as to the processes by which we add
to our in... -
- Tuesday, Mar 01, 2005
ZMag Article I
first
met Ward Churchill when I was working at South End Press 25 years
ago and he submitted a collection of essays revealing why indigenous
people distrust Marxists’ cultural politics. I found Churchill’s
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- Saturday, Jan 01, 2005
ZMag Article E very city is a deeply interconnected web of spatial designs and patterns. From the urban to the suburban, our built environment is carved into commercial and residential areas. Buildings, parking lots, garages, a... - All Parecon ZMag

Parecon Blogs
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- Thursday, Nov 24, 2011
Blog Post On November 19th the yearly Socialist Forum took place in Stockholm. This year’s event constituted the 10 year anniversary of the forum with more than 100 talks, seminars and workshops during the day. Parecon Sweden hosted two seminars together wi... -
- Friday, Nov 11, 2011
Blog Post A very brief summary of Parecon's features -
- Friday, Nov 04, 2011
Blog Post Examining the productivity and stability offered by economies of scale and contrasting how market capitalism and participatory economics handle matters of scale. -
- Thursday, Aug 25, 2011
Blog Post Replying to various anarchist comments and concerns raised online... -
- Thursday, Aug 18, 2011
Blog Post Introducing an opportunity to design reformist approaches to Parecon, this article discusses three fields of organizational method that may shift the role of corporatist theory for radical thought. - All Parecon Blogs

Parecon Commentaries

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- Thursday, Jun 23, 2011
Commentary Vision irresponsibly expects working people to sacrifice time and energy they can apply to surviving the hostile present -
- Saturday, Feb 27, 2010
Commentary I agree that markets for many important reasons must be abolished and replaced. The projects around a participatory society, including participatory economics, certainly rank among the more detailed proposals for a more just successor economy and ... -
- Friday, Dec 25, 2009
Commentary This is part 2 of a three part ZNet commentary series by political economist Robin Hahnel, to be posted Dec. 24-26, 2009. Part 1 was posted yesterday. Part 3 will be available tomorrow. -
- Thursday, Dec 24, 2009
Commentary Part 1 of a three part series exploring the Left and climate change to be run on ZNet Dec. 24-26, 2009 -
- Friday, Nov 06, 2009
Commentary A panel presentation given today, Friday November 6th, 2009 at the 7th international Rethinking Marxism conference, held at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
Commentary In writing 'Black Flame: The revolutionary politics of anarchism and syndicalism', Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt set themselves an ambitious task of writing a history of anarchism. I use the word ambitious mainly because, as Guerin (1970... -
- Saturday, Mar 07, 2009
Commentary A serious economic crisis can force some rethinking of economic and political dogma. The current crisis is serious for most of the world; the IMF is projecting world economic growth of just one half percent this year - the worst since World War II... - All Parecon Commentaries

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- Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011
Forum Post There's now a video available of the seminar “Thinking about Classlessness: An introduction to Participatory Economics” held by Mark Evans (PPS UK) in Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJgXZTZdtcE&feature=youtu.be -
- Thursday, Dec 01, 2011
Forum Post This is a talk I gave at a rally of many thousand at the steps of the Washington State Legislature. They were beginning a special session today to consider even more cutbacks in spending for poor people, health and education.The rally was sponso... Forum Post On November 19th the yearly Socialist Forum took place in Stockholm. This year’s event constituted the 10 year anniversary of the forum with more than 100 talks, seminars and workshops during the day. Parecon Sweden hosted two seminars together wi... Forum Post Very glad to read this account from the Forum, and I agree fully with Anders that co-operation amongst Scandinavian countries is much needed. We have been very pleased with how easy it has been to co-operate with Parecon Sverige, and I think the e... -
- Thursday, Nov 17, 2011
Forum Post A very brief summary of Parecon's features -
- Saturday, Oct 29, 2011
Forum Post This may well be a genuine disagreement or it could be a misunderstanding.
The core of my blog focuses on Chomsky’s misunderstanding / misrepresentation of the motivation behind advocates of participatory economics proposing remunera... -
- Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011
Forum Post people randomly going around undertaking tasks that they decide, from moment to moment, are important is not a serious alternative to capitalism - in fact it is highly irresponsible. -
- Friday, Oct 14, 2011
Forum Post Another way of look at this issue is -
Anarchist like Chomsky assume that in a post-revolutionary economy, of the type that they desire, would result in everyone being willing to do their fair share of work. In turn they also assume that ev... Forum Post A reply to Noam Chomsky's criticisms of parecon from an advocate of parecon. -
- Monday, Oct 03, 2011
Forum Post Hi...a bit of clarification.
This, and much that you tend to enter, are not comments. It is great you are thinking, exploring, etc. And if you want to write about your thoughts, as you go, okay, do so, but in a blog post. Then people will read ... - All Parecon Group Forum

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- Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011
Forum Post There's now a video available of the seminar “Thinking about Classlessness: An introduction to Participatory Economics” held by Mark Evans (PPS UK) in Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJgXZTZdtcE&feature=youtu.be -
- Thursday, Dec 01, 2011
Forum Post Very glad to read this account from the Forum, and I agree fully with Anders that co-operation amongst Scandinavian countries is much needed. We have been very pleased with how easy it has been to co-operate with Parecon Sverige, and I think the e... Forum Post I don't think there is any correct answer.
The crux of the current argument is very much what I am hearing from all sides. There are several sub-groups inside that 99% and the protestors should "present" their demand and... -
- Monday, Nov 28, 2011
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As far as i can tell, the professional-managerial or what you call the coordinator class is almost totally absent in the Occupy movement in Olympia, WA and I think also in Portland and Seattle. Occupy Olympia is primarily young people, man... -
- Wednesday, Nov 23, 2011
Forum Post Hi MIchael (and others)
My general impression is that the 99% slogan is a way to include the poor, the less poor, the middle, the upper middle, and even the upper upper middle in one group. It's divisive and inclusive and the same time, plus ... -
- Tuesday, Nov 22, 2011
Forum Post i agree michael. Oakland Occupy was scheduling GAs every nite. That orients to those in the encampment and people who have the time and commitment to be there all the time. Few people are in that situation. the whole idea of a multi-issue economic... Forum Post No - you are right, but it isn't clear how to deal with it.
That is, when someone writes howver gently, however supportively, with some concerns - others can quote out of context. But - if we let that silence all concerns, then we allow the m... - All Parecon Comments

Recent Video-
- Monday, Dec 19, 2011
Video Mark Evans (PPS-UK) at Stockholm Socialist Forum 19th November 2011 -
- Thursday, Oct 06, 2011
Video An evening dedicated to the question of alternatives both beyond capitalism and state socialism, including what the alternative could look like and how we could get there -
- Monday, Sep 12, 2011
Video Robots from another galaxy figure out what happened to life on earth -
- Tuesday, Sep 06, 2011
Video Prof. Wormgardener comes down on Marsha for not praising capitalism in an assignment -
- Sunday, Aug 21, 2011
Video A realistic economics professor schools her naive, idealistic pupil on how awesome capitalism is compared to participatory socialism - All Recent Video

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