Realizing Hope

Life Beyond Capitalism

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Av Michael Albert, Pnina Werbner, Richard Werbner

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Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. Michael Albert would disagree.Realizing Hope offers a speculative vision of a future beyond capitalism - an alternative to the exploitation of human labour, the unchecked destruction of the earth, and the oppression of all for the benefit of the few. Participatory economics - parecon for short - is Albert’s concrete proposal for a classless economy, developed from anarchist principles first introduced by Kropotkin, Bakunin, Pannekoek and others. In this classic text, Albert takes the insights and hopes of parecon and enlarges them to address all key aspects of social life and society - gender, culture, politics, science, technology, journalism, ecology, and others. Realizing Hope provides vision to help us all together conceive a world that might be just over the horizon, a world we can begin building today.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-01-16
Mått138 x 214 x 18 mm
Vikt300 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritique Influence Change
Antal sidor216
Upplaga2
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781780325620

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Michael Albert has posed a breathtakingly simple question - what do left-libertarians want, exactly, "beyond capitalism"? - and, in answering it, has produced a work of exhilarating scope. Albert captures the best of the spirit of the new global social movement. He consciously rejects all vanguardism, and demands a direct action in the realm of thought: he asks us to look at those who are creating viable alternatives, to try to figure out what might be the larger implications of what they are doing, and then to offer those ideas back, not as prescriptions, but as contributions, possibilities, as gifts. Albert combines close empirical insights with a magisterial conceptual grasp. We will be arguing about this work for years.