The latest content presenting theory, vision & strategy for a Participatory Society or parsoc. Parsoc is a proposed alternative to capitalist, racist, sexist, authoritarian, classist, nationalist & ecologically destructive social organization. Participatory Society / parsoc pursues alternatives that seek to elevate and reproduce self-management, equity, solidarity, diversity, & sustainability across all spheres of life. Participatory Society / parsoc reimagines the organization of existing institutions.
Anders Sandström is a Swedish accounting expert, who has contributed to several books focusing on questions of economic democracy from an accounting…
So far, four sources of definition for society, not one or even two. A human center and institutional boundary, not an economic…
“Freedom is always and exclusively the freedom of those who think differently.”Rosa Luxemburg How We Run the Party Today Reflects How We…
The Path From Survival to Citizenship Access to food, stable housing, healthcare, and socioeconomic security shapes more than daily life. Material insecurity…
Somewhere, in the complex and often confused history of anarchist and communitarian movements of the US, Michael Albert resides, now almost 80,…
The word “socialism” appears steadily more often in steadily more places. Socialism praised, cursed, interred. Socialism past, future, resurrected. What is this…
This article continues a sequence taken from a book, Liberating Theory, published forty years ago. Its seven co-authors felt that a successful left…
Zohran Mamdani’s tenure as New York City mayor has raised hopes of a more invigorated, deeper form of democracy and posed a question facing…
Michael Albert is interviewed here about his latest book, The Wind Cries Freedom, a fictional oral history set in the future. Bridget:…
Is it enough for a politician to say the right thing? Or is genuine credibility also measured by what one does in…
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