World Without War
We cannot say much about human affairs with any confidence, but sometimes it is possible. We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a...
View ArticleRealizing Visions For A Free And Just Society
In his latest project, Realizing Hope: Life beyond Capitalism, Michael Albert argues that there is more to creating a decent society than just having a good economic system. Other spheres of humanity...
View ArticleKritische Masse Interview
Michael Albert, born in 1947, is an author and political activist of the anarchist-syndicalist movement, living in Boston (Massachusetts / USA). He is editor of the internet platform “ZNet” as well as...
View ArticleLatin American – delusion and reality
The irony of attacks on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by cynical, sadistic country-wreckers like Condoleezza Rica and John Negroponte can be lost only on them. While Venezuela advances steadily...
View ArticleParecon and Polity
This essay is excerpted from the Zed Press published book, Realizing Hope Current times make an argument that contemporary political structures are decrepit and redundant. Every day hammers home the...
View ArticleParecon and Crime
This essays is excerpted from the Zed Press book, Realizing Hope It is often said that how a society treats those it punishes graphically displays how civilized and humane that society is. If we look...
View ArticlePower Shift to Economic Justice and Democracy
No sooner than I started to put my thoughts about the environment and markets onto paper, did I stumble upon a concrete example of one of the main things I was thinking about. I got out of bed this...
View ArticleWhat is Real Utopia?
Title: Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century Edition: Paper Back ISBN: 9781904859789 Publisher/Buy: AK Press UTOPIAS HAVE A LONG, mixed history in Left movements. Sometimes they...
View ArticleParticipatory Law – A Law of No Gods, No Masters
It is understandable that, despite the wealth of material about participatory society, no one has written at length of the legal vision suggested by this new society.[1] Lawyers are not a sexy subject...
View ArticleRevolutionary Organization
Humanity’s Big Task At some point a revolution will transform the U.S. economy, polity, kinship, and culture – and similar revolutions will transform other countries too. Such a revolutionary process...
View ArticlePolitics In Venezuela
In early September I went to Venezuela to give a talk about economic vision at a conference there. I stayed a week, and with Greg Wilpert interviewed numerous people about the Bolivarian Revolution....
View ArticlePresident for Life?
The campaign to permit the re-election of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in the Presidential elections of December 2012 is gathering speed. In this context worries have sprung up for the vitality of...
View ArticleA Political System for a Good Society
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is of timeless importance. This one was first published June, 2006.] { This paper was...
View ArticleThe Venezuelan Participatory State
Peering through the metal gate she asks me again "Why do you want a Community Council? What is the reason?" The simplest response, that we want to improve our community has twice already failed to...
View ArticleInternational Relations Involving a Participatory Society
This essay seeks to explore the issues that would face a participatory democratic society when relating to other countries. It is assumed that some of the other countries the participatory society...
View Article*237 A Law Of No Gods, No Masters-Developing And Defending A Participatory...
This is the long version of an article published on ZNet last year outlining the basics of participatory law. The present work was published in the Winter 2009 Hastings International & Comparative...
View ArticleMeans and Mobilization: Venezuela’s referendum on term limits
The campaign to remove term limits from elected offices in Venezuela has brought into sharper focus what appears to be a compromise long struck here, a sacrifice of means to ends. With President...
View ArticleA Response to Cameron’s Coming to Terms with Chavez
In “Coming to Terms with Chávez” Cameron situates the removal of term limits in Venezuela, which will allow President Chávez to run for re-election again in 2012, in the broader authoritarian tradition...
View ArticlePresident Chavez and Venezuela’s Socialist Elected Officials Meet to Discuss...
Mérida, March 26th 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – On Wednesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez convened state governors, city mayors, and legislators from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela...
View ArticleParpolity and Indirect Elections
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] What sorts of decision-making institutions and practices would be appropriate for a good society? In several...
View ArticleRe: Parpolity and Indirect Elections
Stephen, I have always enjoyed your work on parpolity and I would like to get your feedback on this. Whereas your post seems to be more focused on the legislative aspect of government, I have an...
View ArticleReimagining A Global Law
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] International law in a new society wouldn’t exist. Allow me to explain. Let’s say the goal of reimagining society...
View ArticleAnarcho-Government
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] Over the years, I have intimated to many of my anarchist friends that even though I consider myself an anarchist, I don’t...
View ArticleThe Politics of a Good Society
Stephen R. Shalom is a professor of political science at William Paterson University in New Jersey. His books include Which Side Are You On?: An Introduction to Politics and Imperial Alibis:...
View ArticleJCDA as a Framework for Visionary Thinking
JCDA as a Framework for Visionary Thinking The JCDA framework as a point of departure for developing a polity model to accommodate and be accommodated by Parecon Michael Albert, in his book Parecon:...
View ArticleChapter 3 of Occupy Vision: Parpolity
Chapter Three Self Management Implies Parpolity This is the chapter three of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future. In coming days we will post...
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A political system for a good society
Talk from the online conference “The crisis of nation-states – anarchist answers”
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A Radical President?! Pandemonium!
Consider the potential of certain progressives winning high office in the U.S. Beyond their being much better than who they defeat, would they turn out to be allies of corporate continuity? Would they...
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