RevolutionZ

By Michael AlbertSociety & Culture Social Sciences

RevolutionZ episodes

September 08, 2019 Ep 22 - Vision/Strategy 6: Dear DSA
This episode is an open letter to the Democratic Socialists of America urging collective attention to some basic areas of concern regarding what socialism is and how to attain it.
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24 min
September 02, 2019 Ep 21 - What Now 1: Seize the Time
Discusses what comes next for RevolutionZ, and, at greater length, what might come next for people who have heard the 21 Episodes, or at least some. What Now regarding the visionary features discussed in the episodes.
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24 min
August 25, 2019 Ep 20 - Strategy 5: Some basic strategic implications
What does favoring participatory socialism imply about strategy in the large...organizing, organization, etc.
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26 min
August 18, 2019 Episode 19 - Vision: Evaluating Participatory Socialism
How does Participatory Socialism or Participatory Economics fare against the ethical values and economic standards by which we earlier rejected capitalism and market and centrally planned "socialism." Does it deliver equity, diversity, solidarity, self management, sustainability, and classlessness, and even if so, does it have offsetting flaws?
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53 min
August 11, 2019 Ep 18 - Vision: Disputing Participatory Socialism 3
Decades back Noam Chomsky did an extensive interview on his view of a good society. Episode 18 of RevolutionZ presents and responds to Chomsky's views, some of which are consistent with Participatory Socialism, as presented in past episodes, some of which are contrary.
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1 hr 4 min
August 03, 2019 EP 17 - Vision: Disputing Participatory Socialism 2
Via an interview of Michael Albert years back, Barbara Ehrenreich provides thoughtful criticisms of Participatory Socialism that Albert responds too. The main focus is allocation and in particular issues of partial use of markets, time, and also gender, plus a little history.
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53 min
August 01, 2019 Ep 16 - Election 1: Overview Entering Election Season
The first episode in what will be a series devoted to the 2020 American Presidential election is the 16th episode of the podcast RevolutionZ. An overview of the logic of electoral activity for the left, some issues held over from 2016, and some feelings and advisories about 2020.
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29 min
July 28, 2019 Ep 15 - Vision: Disputing Participatory Socialism 1
Here we address various criticisms of the economic vision developed thus far in the podcast RevolutionZ. It is a longer episode, a somewhat deeper going episode, and a somewhat denser episode, than others so far. And yet, it is only the first of two on the topic. Participatory Socialism has its detractors...who need to be seriously addressed.
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47 min
July 21, 2019 Ep 14 - Vision: Participatory Planning
Ep 14 of the Podcast RevolutionZ is titled Participatory Planning. It describes a proposed alternative to markets and central planning for economic allocation. It claims this approach depends on and benefits the equitable remuneration, self managing councils, and balanced job complexes proposed in prior episodes, while getting the allocation job done and facilitating classlessness.
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28 min
July 17, 2019 Ep 13 - Strategy 4: Reforms, Reformism, and Seeds of the Future
When activists consider how to win social change the issue of reforms always arises and is often quite contentious. Likewise for reformism. And sometimes there is discussion of the idea of planting the seeds of the future in the present. This episode of RevolutionZ talks about all three, hoping to arrive at some useful observations.
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24 min