Originally posted on ZNet
Project Description
Reimagining Society participants are generating a vast outpouring of content bearing upon vision for a new society and strategy to attain the aims. This includes:
* Brief introductions by a great many participants summarizing their histories and their hopes and desires for the project
* Initial essays provided by many participants which serve as the starting point of the project discussions
* Discussion among participants of the essays
* Comments on the essays by many readers of the site
* Itemized proposals extracted from the essays and discussions
* Polls tallying participants' and readers' reactions to the proposals
* Concluding essays by participants assessing the overall project
* And a brief accounting of possible future directions for the project.
The Project is hosted by Z Communiations but the contents are freely available for linking or posting on any site that wishes to reproduce all or part of the contents.
Opening Essays
Click any of the following essay titles to go to that Reimagining Society opening essay... In time, as more essays appear, they will be organized better - by country, author, and topic. Each participant was invited to submit one or two essays about vision and strategy regarding economy, polity, gender/kinship, culture/race, ecology, international relations, or any part of any of these areas of life or any more focused aspect of life such as education, health, science, art, etc. - singly or in any combination.
Ezequiel Adamovsky: Autonomous Politics
Michael Albert: Imagine and then Act
Samir Amin: Capitalism in Crisis, Crisis of Capitalism
Dean Baker: Envisioning and Knowing
Michel Bauwens: P2P Civilization / P2P In Depth
C. R. Bijoy: Beyond Resistance and Cooption
Nadine Bloch: It's All About Energy...
Patrick Bond: Reimagining Postneoliberalism
Paul Brodie: The Good Society
George Burchett: The Ten Principles of Bandung
Janet Cherry: Agency Trumps Structure
Tony Christini: Assembling the Future / Declaration...
Noam Chomsky: Notes on Anarchism
Jason Chrusostomou: A Cooperative Web Potal
Pasqualino Colombaro: Global Social & Econ.Independence
Conor Cradden: Workplace Democracy and Markets
John Cronan: Econ. Democracy and Environmental Justice
Ben Dangl: Common Ground
Carl Davidson: Eleven Talking Points
Jose-Maria Duran: Labor and Art
Joe Emersberger: Wovokia
Mark Evans: Vanguardism?
Barbara Epstein: Why the U.S. Left is Weak...
Ann Ferguson: Labor, Love, Community, and Democracy
Don Fitz: Produce Less, Consume More / Less Work
Bill Fletcher: Socialist Strategy
Jerry Fresia: Artists and Parecon
Fernando Gapasin: Starting from the Beginning
Justin George: Beyond Nation State / Animal Lib
Ted Glick: Clean Energy Revolution
David Graeber: Hope In Common
Richard Greeman: From Here to There
Bruno Gulli: Utopia
Robin Hahnel: Participatory Planning
Michael Hardt: Politics of the Common
Chaia Heller: Imagining the Impossible
Marcus Hill: Public Health /Anti Civilization Theory
Fred Ho: Vision for Revolution
Pervez Hoodbhoy: Imperialism and Islamism
Francois Houtart: Universal Rights
Caragh Illes: Insulate and Isolation
Robert Jensen: Life in a Dead Culture
John Kane: U.S. Socialism
Daniel Keshet: Agile Activism
Len Krimerman: Democracy's Dilemma / Solidarity Economy
Hans Krysmanski: Elites and Power
Saul Landau: The Amazon 2009
Gar Lipow: Growing a Better World / Money Lies
Michael Lowy: Ecosocialism
Stephanie Mcmillan: War Against Omnicide
Mandisi Majavu: Suicidal Tendencies
Eric Mann: Grassroots Organizing for World Revolution
Peter Marcuse: Socialism a Sector at a Time
Yotam Marom: Revolutionary Communalism
Raoul Martinez: Creating Education
Atlee McFellin: Toward a Participatory Recovery Plan
Michael McGhehee: The Other Campaign
Francine Mestrum: Fight Global Income Inequality
Cindy Milstein: Anarchism's Promise
Trevor Nagwane: Working Class Rule
Jessica Gordon Nembhardt: Coops in New Orleans
Misty Novitch: The Warmth
Pablo Ortellado: From the Shell of the Old
Leo Panitch: Transcending Pessimism
Tamara Pearson: Intellectualism for All
Cynthia Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex
Majid Rahnema: Subsistance Knowledges
Milan Rai: Thinking Strategically
Jean Robert: Subsistance Knowledges
Saskia Sassen: Pulling the Economy into Our Communities
Danny Schechter: Call and Response
Richard Schmitt: What's a Socialist to Do?
Kim Scipes: Deep Green Vision
Stephen Shalom: Parpolity and Indirect Elections
Christian Siefkes: Commons of the Future
Chris Spannos: Reimagining Social Services
Paul Street: Why Reimagine Socialism
Joseph Sweetman: Psychology & Parsoc
Mitchell Szczepanczyk: The Montesi Manuever Extended
Michael Tanzer: Reducing COs Emissions
Fernando Vegas Torrealba: The Revolutionary Lawyer
Marie Trigona: Workplace Resistance & Self Management
Andre Vltchek: Fighting Propaganda
Tom Wetzel: Solidarity Unionism
Greg Wilpert: 21st Century Socialism
Andreas Wittel: Creating Common Grounds
Erik Olin Wright: Taking the Social in Socialism Seriously
Raul Zibechi: Cochabamba