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Realizing Hope : Life Beyond Capitalism.
Title:
Realizing Hope : Life Beyond Capitalism.
Author:
Albert, Michael.
ISBN:
9781780329758
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (218 pages)
Series:
critique influence change
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.
Abstract:
Realizing Hope offers a speculative vision of a future beyond capitalism - an alternative to the exploitation of human labour, the unchecked destruction of the earth, and the oppression of all for the benefit of the few. Participatory economics - parecon for short - is Albert's concrete proposal for a classless economy. In this classic text, Albert takes the insights and hopes of parecon and enlarges them to address all key aspects of social life and society.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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