AttacD-AWWO: Can you say something about the process, the discussion that lead to Parecon (participatory economics) and the book that is now also appearing in German translation this fall?

Michael Albert: Sure. It was a long process. It started out by responding to people who would constantly ask “what do you want?”, not just to me, but to movements of all kinds. We became attuned to the fact that that desire was a realistic desire, that people want to have realistic answers, serious institutional answers. The discussion involved critiquing existing options: what is called market socialism an

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