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critique influence change

About the author

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Noam Chomsky

Preface to the critique influence change edition

Introduction

1 Parecon

Capitalism

Parecon’s values

Parecon’s institutions

2 Polity

Anarchist roots

The need for political vision

Failed political visions

Parpolity

Parpolity and economy

Addendum: Parpolity and political strategy today

3 Kinship

Kinship vision

Economics and women and men

Parecon’s impact

Economics and sexuality

Economics and intergenerational conflict

4 Community

Cultural vision

Race and capitalism

Race and parecon

Addendum: Religion and the left

5 Internationalism

Rejecting capitalist globalization

Supporting global justice

Participatory economics not capitalist greed

The implications of parecon for international relations

6 Ecology

Economies and the environment

Parecon’s alternative approach

Other species

7 Science/Technology

Defining science

Science motives

Science and economics

Parecon and science

Technology

Economics and technology

Parecon’s technology

Health as a further indicator

8 Education

Education now

Future education

9 Art

Artistic attitudes

Parecon art

Artists’ questions

Artists’ needs

10 Journalism

Capitalist media

Parecon and journalism

11 Athletics

Pareconish athletics

Athletics?

Competition

12 Crime

Crime and punishment in capitalism

Parecon and crime

Economic crime in parecon?

13 Questions

Capitalism questions

Parecon questions

Questioning today’s society

Questioning future society

14 Strategy

Non-reformist reform struggles

Class maps: class struggle

Fighting to win

15 Marxism

Marxism’s features

Marxist economism

Marxism and class

Marxism and vision and strategy

Marxism indicts Marxism

Not people at fault, but institutions

Concepts and collective behavior

A better Marxism?

Getting personal about it

16 Anarchism

The two faces of anarchism

Anarchist vision?

21st-century anarchism

Addendum: Primitivism

17 Aspirations

18 Dissent

References

Index

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