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Postcapitalist Work: Balanced Jobs and Equitable Remuneration
Written by Michael Albert, this paper discusses a post-capitalist vision for an alternative way to organise workplaces, work and...
Jan 12, 20221 min read


Participatory Planning
Written by Professor Professor Robin Hahnel, this paper discusses production and consumption in a post-capitalist society, and how those...
Jan 12, 20221 min read


Postcapitalist Allocation: Participatory Planning
Written by Michael Albert, this paper focuses on allocation in a post-capitalist society. We are told that there are only two options for...
Jan 12, 20221 min read


Decision-Making in a Good Society: The Case for Nested Councils
Written by Professor Stephen R. Shalom, this paper focuses on how democratic decision-making would happen in a post-capitalist society...
Jan 12, 20221 min read


Going beyond social democratic capitalism
This is the first of ten extracts from the new book Democratic Economic Planning (2021, Routledge) by Robin Hahnel. This article is taken...
Dec 3, 20216 min read


Postcapitalist Decision Making
By Michael Albert Source: https://metacpc.org/en/mwp4en/ Decision making is multifaceted. The thing decided is not alone important. How...
Dec 3, 20211 min read


Anders Sandstrom interviews Robin Hahnel about Democratic Economic Planning
Here we provide a copy of the interview with Robin Hahnel discussing democratic economic planning, which was first published in Swedish...
Nov 16, 20211 min read


Overcoming Our Suicidal Tendencies
Originally published in Collective 20. By Collective 20 [Collective 20 is a group of writers located in different places throughout the...
Oct 13, 20219 min read


Eco-localism: A Constructive Critique
Source: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/eco-localism-a-constructive-critique-by-robin-hahnel/ In the aftermath of the collapse of...
Jul 5, 202113 min read


The Politics of a Good Society
Source: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-politics-of-a-good-society-by-stephen-shalom 1. Could you briefly outline for us what Parpolity...
Jul 2, 202111 min read


Some Reflections on Sortition
Source: https://newpol.org/issue_post/some-reflections-on-sortition/ That capitalism needs to be replaced is obvious. We need a system...
Jul 2, 202117 min read


A Review Essay: In Search of Economic Justice
Source: https://newpol.org/review/review-essay-search-economic-justice/ Robin Hahnel has written an important book that will be of real...
Jul 1, 202154 min read


The New Class Struggle
Source: https://newpol.org/review/new-class-struggle/ REAL UTOPIA IS A WIDE-RANGING BOOK that can deliver for the open-minded reader. It...
Jul 1, 20217 min read


Of the People, By the People Interview
Source: https://newpol.org/people-people/ Robin Hahnel's Of the People, By the People: The case for a participatory economy (Soapbox...
Jul 1, 202128 min read


Participatory Economics and the Commons
By Robin Hahnel 2015 - publsihed in Capitalism Nature Socialism Abstract: What is the commons? What should the commons include? What...
Jun 29, 20211 min read


What Is Participatory Economics?
by C J Polychroniou and Michael Albert Source: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-is-participatory-economics/ Participatory economics has...
Jun 8, 202110 min read


International Relations Involving a Participatory Society
Matt Grind From ZNet This essay seeks to explore the issues that would face a participatory democratic society when relating to other...
May 3, 202113 min read


Kinship Vision
By Cynthia Peters Originally posted on Znet. First published May 19, 2006 { This paper is being prepared for the June 1 – 7 2006 first Z...
May 2, 202127 min read


Searching for a Post-Sexist Society
By Lydia Sargent Originally posted in Z Magazine on 3 May 2010 Imagine a baby. A baby girl, like the one pictured here [photo was...
May 2, 202123 min read


Socialism As It Was Always Meant To Be
Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel View Online or Download
Mar 23, 20211 min read
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