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Can a post-Capitalist socialist Economy exist without numbers? There are those who think it can. In this episode Mitchell, Robin and Antti…
Anders Sandstrom
After working ten years in the business world as a financial manager and business controller I came across some books by Noam Chomsky and later on Michael Albert/Robin Hahnel. I became aware of the horrible effects of our present capitalistic society.I quit my job, changed sides and joined the swedish syndicalist union SAC in 2002 with the intention to work for a different type of society. For the next five years I worked in several different positions within the organisation and in the SAC owned businesses. I left SAC in 2007 and I am currently running a small accounting firm. I am a strong supporter of the Parecon model.
Housing is a very special type of good. It is essential for society since everybody needs a place to live and it…
There is a value in discussing visions and demonstrating that alternatives to the capitalist economic system can be expressed in more concrete terms as well, and not only in high-flying utopian rhetoric
The Left has lost much of its influence since the 1980s. Neoliberalism has taken over both theory and practice, and achieved many…
Our aim should be the best possible approximations of our ideals while acknowledging that the implementation of ideals and institutions in a real-world economy will never look exactly the same
The market system is fundamentally at odds with the concept of democracy and people having a say over decisions that affect them
Earlier this year my book Anarchist Accounting: Accounting Principles for a Participatory Economy was released in both a Swedish and an English…
Last Thursday (Feb 16) my article” A Utopia Liberated from Markets” was published in the radical Swedish weekly Arbetaren (The Worker). The…
Mark Evans from Project for a Participatory Society – UK gives an introduction to Participatory Economics at Stockholm Socialist Forum 19th November 2011.…
On November 19ththe yearly Socialist Forum took place in Stockholm. This year’s event constituted the 10 year anniversary of the forum with…