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Michael Albert
Michael Albert`s radicalization occurred during the 1960s. His political involvements, starting then and continuing to the present, have ranged from local, regional, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet, and to working on all these projects, writing for various publications and publishers, giving public talks, etc. His personal interests, outside the political realm, focus on general science reading (with an emphasis on physics, math, and matters of evolution and cognitive science), computers, mystery and thriller/adventure novels, sea kayaking, and the more sedentary but no less challenging game of GO. Albert is the author of 21 books which include: No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World; Fanfare for the Future; Remembering Tomorrow; Realizing Hope; and Parecon: Life After Capitalism. Michael is currently host of the podcast Revolution Z and is a Friend of ZNetwork.
I recently put a Q/A on the site and in the mail about the Parecon paperback edition, the recent mailings re parecon,…
(1) Why have you sent messages about your book’s paperback release as ZNet Updates? Out of frustration and out of hope.…
This is an interesting proposition in light of how this all began. First the U.S. invaded Iraq. Just afterwards, in April 2003,…
Ehrenreich: I have heard that there’s been a lot of interest around the world in your new book, Parecon: Life After Capitalism,…
This weekend I had the unusual and rather mixed pleasure of speaking at an academic gathering. I actually thought it was going…
Bob Dylan meant and means a lot to me — so you can perhaps imagine my mood on seeing him advertising Victoria’s…
Ehrenreich: In the book Parecon, you make no mention, that I can find anyway, of remuneration for the work of “caring” in…
Ehrenreich: Why don’t you call yourself a socialist? It seems to me Parecon is well within the socialist tradition. Are you uncomfortable…
Ehrenreich: You say your notion of parecon was influenced by your experiences with real “alternative” organizations like South End Press. Can you…