> The relevant questions are: Who has access to what information? What means for conveying information and opinions exist? How is the communicative interchange organized? These are some of the interesting questions the "modern" Frankfurt school has focused on. Remarkably, just by setting minimal goals for "humane communication," members of this school have elaborated guiding values for much of society.

https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/books/notes/notes.htm#notes5

#MichaelAlbert #RobinHahnel on
#HumaneCommunication #FrankfurtSchool #ModernFrankfurtSchol #JurgenHabermas

https://youtu.be/eTi5NlWKlio?si=Uyu1ePjuo3usQ1UZ

#MichaelAlbert, social #activist, author and co-founder of #ZMagazine, speak on the problems of the progressive social

movement and what it can do better.

> I don’t want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you out
I ain’t lookin’ for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/10/meet-mr-dylan/
#ACompleteUnknown #MichaelAlbert on #BobDylan #MrDylan

> ... once you do attend to the “‘necessary” aspect of the tactical entreaty “by any means necessary,” one thing is undeniable. Acts that would fail to reduce the immense suffering at play, much less acts that what would instead reduce the prospects of reducing that suffering, certainly aren’t necessary...
> round about 1968, I mulled joining Weatherman’s advocators of violence. Luckily for me a guy named Noam advised me otherwise.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/16/by-any-means-necessary/
#MichaelAlbert #AnyMeansNecessary

> The economy, of course, is efficient but efficient only in providing misery.
--- Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel with E.K. Hunt

> ... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible foot to promote...[misery]... By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes social misery more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.
--- with apologies to Adam Smith

https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/www/books/3/3.htm#3.2.1

#EKHunt #MichaelAlbert #RobinHahnel #AdamSmith #EconomicsOfMisery #TheInvisibleHand #TheInvisibleFoot

#MichaelAlbert on certain Marxists and also post -modernists to a degree: “The masquerade - the turning of what you do: research, or writing, or whatever it is - into something that appears to be much harder than it really is is repulsive. And I do think that lots of people have in fact done that.”

https://pca.st/episode/824b987c-9b1e-437c-9936-51dba13034a7?t=2990.0