Realizing Hope: Life beyond Capitalism

ISBN: 1842777211

Author: Albert, Michael

Condition: New

Product Description"What is the alternative to capitalist globalization?" is a question challenging activists around the world. Michael Albert has wrestled with this question for many years, and his answer has captured the imagination of many. Participatory Economics--"Parecon" for short--is Albert's proposal for an economic system which offers a real alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity. In this ambitious new book, Albert goes further. Realizing Hope offers a vision of how whole areas of life might be transformed in a post-capitalist society, one where communities rather than profits are placed firmly at the center.ReviewPraise for Parecon: Life After Capitalism:"Michael Albert is an important thinker who takes us beyond radical denunciations and pretentious 'analysis' to a thoughtful, profound meditation on what a good society can be like."--Howard Zinn"A great many activists and concerned people ask, quite rightly, what alternative form of social organization can be imagined that might overcome the grave flaws--often real crimes--of contemporary society in more far-reaching ways than short-term reform. Parecon is the most serious effort I know to provide a very detailed possible answer to some of these questions, crucial ones, based on serious thought and careful analysis."--Noam Chomsky"Capitalism not working for you? Michael Albert may be tilting at windmills, but readers are flocking to his book on a system to spread the wealth and work."--Los Angeles Times"Parecon is a brave argument for . . . a much needed--more equitable, democratic, participatory--alternative economic vision."--Arundhati Roy"Michael Albert has offered an alternative system of participatory economics to end the dehumanizing failures and injustices of free market capitalism. It is a compelling book for our times."--Ben H. Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly"Capitalism not working for you? Michael Albert may be tilting at windmills, but readers are flocking to his book on a system to spread the wealth and work."--Los Angeles Times"Parecon is a brave argument for . . . a much needed--more equitable, democratic, participatory--alternative economic vision."--Arundhati RoyAbout the AuthorMichael Albert co-founded South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet where he continues to work. He is the author of seventeen books, most recently Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2004).