By Sean Michael Wilson, Carl Thompson
Parecomic is a photograph novel approximately whatever that has effects on us all: the process we are living in—what’s incorrect with it, and the way we'd have the option switch it for the higher. Written by means of Sean Michael Wilson, and drawn by means of Carl Thompson, Parecomic is ready Michael Albert—the visionary at the back of “participatory economics”—and his life’s fight as a left-wing activist within the US.
Proposed as a substitute to capitalism, participatory economics (parecon, for brief) values fairness, unity, range, and participatory self-management. In Albert’s imaginative and prescient, employees and shoppers councils use self-managed decision-making, balanced task complexes, renumeration in response to length, depth, and onerousness of socially valued exertions; and participatory planning.
Parecomic will advisor readers via this anarchist-influenced economy, along the biography that ended in its development—beginning with the heady days of Sixties pupil demos and way of life rebellions; following the advancements of the antiwar, civil rights, woman’s, and Black Panthers events; to the institution of different media like South finish Press and ZNet.
The contemporary upsurge in renowned protest within the US and around the globe indicates that folks usually are not pleased with the nation of capitalism. The Occupy move, rather, makes undeniable the will for a greater process, a version that would paintings for the 99%, not only the 1%. Parecon is one such version, and Parecomic brings this to existence in illustrated shape.
Read Online or Download Parecomic: Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics PDF
Best capitalism books
A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari
A User's consultant to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically sensible elaboration of the main collaborative paintings of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. whilst learn in addition to its rigorous textual notes, the e-book additionally turns into the richest scholarly remedy of Deleuze's whole philosophical oeuvre to be had in any language.
Reification: or the Anxiety of Late Capitalism
Of the entire options that have emerged to explain the results of capitalism at the human international, none is extra image or simply grasped than “reification”—the technique in which women and men are become items, issues. coming up out of Marx’s account of commodity fetishism, the idea that of reification deals an unrivalled device with which to provide an explanation for the genuine outcomes of the ability of capital on realization itself.
Psychology and Capitalism: The Manipulation of Mind
Psychology and Capitalism is a severe and available account of the ideological and fabric position of psychology in helping capitalist company and retaining participants completely answerable for their destiny throughout the advertising of individualism.
A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line (Penguin Underground Lines)
'Sometimes you pay attention humans say "Oh I had a nightmare trip at the tube" and also you needless to say their travel domestic at the London Underground was once extra disagreeable than ordinary. We don't take the be aware 'nightmare' to intend that during the center of a packed carriage they actually realised that they have been donning their pyjamas after which felt their tooth crumbling as their adolescence maths instructor stood sooner than them pointing and guffawing, simply it wasn't precisely the Tube since it used to be additionally the kitchen.
- Collected Works, Volume 38: Letters 1844-51
- The Theory of Business Enterprise
- Inequality and Power: The Economics of Class (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
- Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History
- Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time
- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Additional resources for Parecomic: Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics
Example text
The figural (or MARXISM AND THE HIDDEN GOD 57 dialectical) elaboration of such images consists of wresling them out of the archaic domain of empirical history, charging them 'to the bursting point with time', and thereby annihilating what Benjamin calls the intentio - the immediate historical context which is more properly the concern of the human sciences. This explosive moment is simultaneously the 'birth of authentic historical time, the time of truth'. Thus, in Benjamin's idea of the dialectical image, at least, the afiìrmation of transcendence - of another world which is present at every moment in this one - is a central, ineluctable motif, inseparable from the task of intervening in this world.
The painting depicts people known to Spencer during his life - including the artist himself and several 44 REIFICÂTION, OR THE ÂNXIETY OF LATE CAPITALISM members of his family - physically arising from their graves in the parish cemetery. w - a disjunction punctuated by its inadequacy, by its actualiry as the product of worldly logic - is given imaginative form. In Christian art, the same disjunction attains a sensuous form. Christianity and art have an almost symbiotic relationship, as thinkers including Hegel, Freud, Adorno and Georg Simmel have srrongly intuited.
Ia In The Modern Prince,,tntonio Gramsci founds his idea of the revolutionary parfy on a similarþ paradoxical conception of the agency of historical change. 15 In Machiavellit final invocation of a prince (nominally Lorenzo de Medici) who 'really exists', therefore, occurs a 67 WHÂT IS IMPUTED CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS? synthesis of the ideal and the material, comparable to that which occurs in the Christian íncarnation, or in the celebration of the Eucharist - or in the role of the parry as Gramsci develops it by anùogy'.