Ideas

“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come,” Victor Hugo

There is an alternative: participatory economics

by Jerome Roos on April 21, 2012

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In this interview, Michael Albert — co-founder of Znet — reflects on the vision of participatory economics, and how it could take us beyond capitalism.

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The only thing we need to become truly free is the final realization of our own freedom. Education must cultivate this emerging state of consciousness.

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A proposal on how to perpetuate the creative and cooperative spirit of the occupations and transform them into lasting forms of social organization.

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O ano de 2011 marca o fim do Fim da História

by Jerome Roos on October 26, 2011

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Quando o sistema força pessoas comuns a se tornarem revolucionárias, você sabe que você não está mais no Fim da História. Você está bem na sua beirada.

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El año 2011 marca el fin del Fin de la Historia

by Jerome Roos on October 26, 2011

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Cuando el sistema obliga a la gente común a transformarse en revolucionarios, sabes que te encuentras al borde mismo de la historia.

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The year 2011 marks the end of the End of History

by Jerome Roos on October 23, 2011

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When the system forces ordinary people to become revolutionaries, you know you’re no longer at the End of History. You’re at the very edge of it.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. As the world moves from crisis to crisis, the time has come to admit that the system itself is to blame.

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From crisis to crisis: can capitalism survive?

by Jerome Roos on October 11, 2011

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With the world locked in the deadly embrace of a neoliberal elite consensus, the time has come to look at some of the deeper dynamics behind capitalist crisis.

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Neoliberalism, austerity and participatory democracy

by Sveinung Legard on September 15, 2011

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The seemingly “antagonistic” struggles for welfare reforms and for revolutionary changes in the politico-economic power structure actually go hand-in-hand.

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Post image for Eight key proposals for another Europe, by Eric Toussaint

With a wave of popular protest washing across Europe, the time has finally come to ask that good old aspirational question once again: what is to be done?

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