Show threadbsmall2Jul 16, 2025
@bsmall2 The _Looking Forward_ illustrations could be great way to think on the personalities encourage by jobs as #ICEThugs... I read somewhere that some are working to pay off student loans.. But I just saw a video on Threads where the guys look older and the voice over the cell phone video was asking them if they were doing it to get another "above ground pool" the video cut off before the nasty looking beefcake guy responded with more than a turn to face the camera with a dirty look...
https://znetwork.org/looking-forward/
#LookingForward #ParEcon #MAlbert
Looking Forward

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Caractacus PottsMar 21, 2025

https://youtu.be/cj_sL9bK6IE?si=-dxYlN6OiUg8EhIN

This is a video introducing the model for a post-capitalist economy, known as a #ParticipatoryEconomy #Parecon

A Participatory Economy: a post-capitalist model

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ZNet (unofficial)Jun 26, 2024

Mitchell Szczepanczyk, an experienced political activist and co-founded of the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society, writes about how media might function in a participatory economy.

In this model, media production would be collective and planned by worker and consumer councils, without profit motives. Media workers would be paid based on effort, ensuring more equitable and diverse media production.

#Parecon #ParticipatoryEconomy #activism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/media-in-a-participatory-economy/

Media in a Participatory Economy

For more than a decade, I had focused most of my political activism on media — making media (television, radio, writings, internet work), challenging

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sofia ☮️🏴Nov 10, 2023

so i chatted with a marxist recently and they said what i proposed resembled #parecon and now i finally looked into it.

and, like, wow, no.

first of all it yet again tries to reinvent all of society completely, have it forced on everyone and destroy all competing models. just where do people get this sort of arrogance from?

and how could people think that this resembles #anarchism? what's so hard to understand about noone getting to dictate other people's social relations?

ZNet (unofficial)Nov 8, 2023

A research article presents simulations of the democratically planned economies with encouraging results:

“…we explore one of these democratic planning models–#RobinHahnel and #MichaelAlbert’s model of a #ParticipatoryEconomy, focusing in particular on its allocation mechanism–a non-market, non-command-planning procedure known as participatory planning.”

After an overview of #parecon, the article offers experts the full #simulation model and future prospects.

https://www.anserpress.org/journal/jie/1/3/15

Pseudocode and Algorithms for Computer Simulations of Democratically Planned Economies

The claim that “there is no third way” besides the economic models of capitalism and communism has faced a challenge from a new and growing body of research into a “third way” economic paradigm known as democratic planning. In this paper, we explore one of these democratic planning models–Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert’s model of a participatory economy, focusing in particular on its allocation mechanism–a non-market, non-command-planning procedure known as “participatory planning.” This procedure has recently been implemented in computer programs to explore its feasibility, the encouraging results of which have been published elsewhere and which we summarize here. But I present here for the first time the detailed algorithms and related pseudocode powering all of these computer programs for others to consider, examine, and build as their own programs. I also describe future directions for this avenue of research.

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Brian SmallAug 27, 2023

From Looking Forware (Parecon Book)

https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-1164-eb37-b225-5da809853947

From Looking Forware (Parecon Book)

> That which we at present call laziness is, rather, the disgust which men [sic] feel over breaking their backs for beggars' salaries and being, moreover, lo...

bs2Aug 27, 2023
> ... to judge both traditional and new economic institutions, we will ask whether they subvert or promote:
1. Efficiency ..
2. Equity ..
3. Self-management ..
4. Solidarity ..
5. Variety (defined as a diversity of outcomes).
We will also ask if economic institutions impose any biases on individual choice that impede these five aims by charging people other than the true social opportunity costs for activities.
https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/books/1.htm
#PolPar #ParEcon #ParEconBooks #MichaelAlbert #RobinHahnel
Chapter 1 - Traditional Economies

ZNet (unofficial)Aug 23, 2023

Verso books are massively reduced at the moment.

Among others you can get the ebook "Parecon: Life After Capitalism" by Michael Albert for only 6$.

#parecon #ebook #book
https://www.versobooks.com/products/1840-parecon

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ZNet (unofficial)Jul 27, 2023

The Socialist Banana Debate: Can abundance thrive under socialism?

A thought experiment raises questions about production and consumption under #socialism. An engaging exploration of socialism, the role of markets, participatory #economy and the potential for universal prosperity, it asks whether bananas would be available if farmers, not corporations, were empowered. Share your opinions!

#parecon #labor

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/socialists-really-do-have-to-talk-about-bananas/

Socialists Really Do Have to Talk About Bananas

It’s easy to mock the “banana discourse” that’s materialized on left-wing Twitter in the last week. But there are important issues here about how

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Show threadZNet (unofficial)Jun 29, 2023

Michael Albert offers a critical response to the "necessity of balanced job complexes" by Mark Evans.

While agreeing in principle with some "strategically easier options", the debate centers on whether job structures or ideological training primarily contribute to #ClassDivisions and how best to achieve a participatory #economy.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/parecon-without-jobs-balanced-for-empowerment/

#parecon #debate

Parecon Without Jobs Balanced for Empowerment?

An advocate of participatory economics, Mark Evans, has proposed that to attain a self-managing, equitable, classless, participatory economy we don’t need

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