RevolutionZ

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 o…

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 …

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 t…

Can a good economy have central planning, markets, or any combination of the two, and also have self management, solidarity, equity, classlessness. We find that the answer is no. We must find a diffe…

A brief account of the experience of Starting and Conducting RevolutionZ so far...

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Having last episode introduced the idea of a coordinator class between labor and capital, this episode takes up the implications this has for how workers view coordinators and vice versa. It talks mo…

How many people, with what level of awareness and commitment do movements need to win? What obstacles are there to reaching out? More, once people are near or in movements, why do they often tend to …

Episode 8 advocated balancing jobs so their empowerment effects on workers would be equalized instead of 20% monopolizing the empowering tasks and 80% being relegated disempowering tasks - with the f…

A brief introduction to the podcast RevolutionZ from the host, Michael Albert. I report my opening mindset, hopes, and tentativeness with the technology. I describe my intended content, proposed epis…

Our eighth episode discusses what quality of work different folks now do, and should do - what tasks now compose and should compose jobs, and what the division of labor is now and should be, if we ar…

Our seventh episode discusses who should have how much say in decisions, and means by which they can. It is therefore all about the logic and (some) mechanisms of self management, particularly in wor…

This Episode starts a new sequence, emphasizing strategy. This first entry in the Strategy sequence talks about why strategy is essential and considers some very basic insights about its components a…

Jeff Bezos owns Amazon. You own your shoes and shirt. Each is private property. We are told they are alike, except Bezos helps more people. So what is the property problem, and what is it’s solution …

This is a brief recounting of the experience to date, and of where it will hopefully soon be going. It is also a bit of an experiment. Other Episodes to far have been scripted. This update is not. Le…

In this episode I discuss major criticisms of the equity approach to providing income. A case is made that if the rest of a future economy can operate compatibly, giving income only for duration, int…

This third Episode of RevolutionZ takes up the question - what should people earn for their labors. How does it work now? How should it work in a good economy.

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Episode 2 of RevolutionZ discusses values and their application to judging and envisioning societies. It argues the merits of settling on five values useful for motivating and guiding new vision: Equ…

This first episode of RevolutionZ discusses the widely unacknowledged but nonetheless universally pressing need for activist, long-term, shared vision and strategy to provide hope, to orient and info…