Real Utopia-Left Forum '08: Michael Albert (3/3)

Real Utopia:
Participatory Society for the 21st Century

A Left Forum Panel, hosted by Z Communications

Filmed at Cooper Union, NYC, on 3/15/2008, by Charngchi Way (Chomskyan) and David Buccola (Buddhagem)

Panelists:
Chair-Meaghan Linick-Loughley-New School SDS

Chris Spannos-ZNet
Michael Albert-ZNet
Jessica Azulay-The New Standard, WebRoot Solutions
Brian Dominick-The New Standard, WebRoot Solutions
Greg Wilpert-Venezuelanalysis.com
Richard W. Franke-Montclair State University, NJ

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Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• left
• forum
• participatory
• economics
• society
• Michael
• Albert
• ZNet
• parecon
• democracy

[PersianPaladin]

Michael Albert is a smart man.

[GlobalAlternateMedia]

@cheshirepuss42

Why would it not? There have been numerous societal wide revolutions, why couldn't there be a parecon revolution? Also, if you look at the Arab spring you'll see the revolution spread (see: domino theory).

Not that I think parecon is good, it sucks major ass.

[s0673451]

i think in this situation the government would have to underwrite any losses made. business would have to be in the short term a non-[rofit entitiy

[cheshirepuss42]

But he poses a problem, without giving an answer. If your company can't compete with others because of a still existent market-system, the fact is you will be out of work. That would mean that implementing Parecon only works if you implement it pretty much globally. This would seem like a problem, as this is not going to happen. What is the answer?