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Realizing hope : life beyond capitalism / Michael Albert ; with a foreword by Noam Chomsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albert, Michael.
- Series:
- Critique, influence, change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Distributive justice.
- Economics--Sociological aspects.
- Economics.
- Social structure--Economic aspects.
- Social structure.
- Cooperation.
- Social change.
- Quality of life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 pages).
- Edition:
- [Second edition].
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : Zed Books, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Albert's economic replacement for capitalism, -'Parecon'- has already become widely known. Here he goes further offering insights about how whole areas of life might be transformed in a new society.
- Contents:
- Front cover
- critique influence change
- About the author
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Noam Chomsky
- Preface to the critique influence change edition
- Introduction
- 1 Parecon
- Capitalism
- Parecon's values
- Parecon's institutions
- 2 Polity
- Anarchist roots
- The need for political vision
- Failed political visions
- Parpolity
- Parpolity and economy
- Addendum: Parpolity and political strategy today
- 3 Kinship
- Kinship vision
- Economics and women and men
- Parecon's impact
- Economics and sexuality
- Economics and intergenerational conflict
- 4 Community
- Cultural vision
- Race and capitalism
- Race and parecon
- Addendum: Religion and the left
- 5 Internationalism
- Rejecting capitalist globalization
- Supporting global justice
- Participatory economics not capitalist greed
- The implications of parecon for international relations
- 6 Ecology
- Economies and the environment
- Parecon's alternative approach
- Other species
- 7 Science/Technology
- Defining science
- Science motives
- Science and economics
- Parecon and science
- Technology
- Economics and technology
- Parecon's technology
- Health as a further indicator
- 8 Education
- Education now
- Future education
- 9 Art
- Artistic attitudes
- Parecon art
- Artists' questions
- Artists' needs
- 10 Journalism
- Capitalist media
- Parecon and journalism
- 11 Athletics
- Pareconish athletics
- Athletics?
- Competition
- 12 Crime
- Crime and punishment in capitalism
- Parecon and crime
- Economic crime in parecon?
- 13 Questions
- Capitalism questions
- Parecon questions
- Questioning today's society
- Questioning future society
- 14 Strategy
- Non-reformist reform struggles
- Class maps: class struggle
- Fighting to win
- 15 Marxism
- Marxism's features.
- Marxist economism
- Marxism and class
- Marxism and vision and strategy
- Marxism indicts Marxism
- Not people at fault, but institutions
- Concepts and collective behavior
- A better Marxism?
- Getting personal about it
- 16 Anarchism
- The two faces of anarchism
- Anarchist vision?
- 21st-century anarchism
- Addendum: Primitivism
- 17 Aspirations
- 18 Dissent
- References
- Index
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 10, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-78032-975-X
- OCLC:
- 868489148
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