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 more about the new class's agendas, and how movements can serve working people instead of provoking class rule by coordinators. Along the way it talks, as well, about Trump's working class support and about past "socialist" experiences and their coordinator facets. Support the show...
Jul 09, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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 leave? Episode 10 of RevolutionZ addresses these and other related matters. Support the show
Jul 03, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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 former group/class then dominating the latter. This Episode addresses criticisms of balancing jobs. Support the show
Jun 30, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 episode structure, and current plans for starting, proceeding, and steadily improving and growing, from one episode a week to two and then three, - from my lone presentation episodes, to episodes with guests, to episodes answering questions posed by users - and from just audio, to audio and video. Just s...
Jun 24, 2019•5 min
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 are to have justice, equity, self-management, and even classlessness. Support the show
Jun 23, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 workplaces. If you have reactions, questions, or especially advice and suggestions for RevolutionZ , please email [email protected] To support RevolutionZ , please visit our Patreon Page . Support the show...
Jun 16, 2019•26 min
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 and use. If you have reactions, questions, or especially advice and suggestions for RevolutionZ , please email [email protected] To support RevolutionZ , please visit our Patreon Page . Support the show...
Jun 16, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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 for a good economy. Episode 5 proposes answers. If you have reactions, questions, or especially advice and suggestions for RevolutionZ , please email [email protected] To support RevolutionZ , please visit our Patreon Page . Support the show...
Jun 09, 2019•11 min
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. Let me know, if you have time, if you have a preference.... If you have reactions, questions, or especially advice and suggestions for RevolutionZ , please email [email protected] To support RevolutionZ , please visit our Patreon Page . Support the show...
Jun 09, 2019•6 min
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, intensity, and onerousness of socially valued work is an approach consistent with our values. If you have reactions, questions, or especially advice and suggestions for RevolutionZ , please email [email protected] To support RevolutionZ , please visit our Patreon Page . Support the show...
Jun 03, 2019•20 min
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. If someone asks: “I get that you want a higher minimum wage, I get that you support people striking for better pay, but what do you think really ought to happen regarding people's earnings,” can we answer? This episode tries to do so. If you have reactions, questions, or especially advice and suggestions for RevolutionZ , please emai...
May 22, 2019•14 min•Season 1Ep. 3
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: Equity, Self Management, Solidarity, Diversity, and Sustainability. It explores each value, and applies them to assessing current society. Doing so indicates the need for a new society and for new vision and strategy on the road to that new society. This being only our second episode, I am still learnin...
May 20, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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 inform current actions, and to ensure that we wind up where we wish to arrive and not elsewhere. This first episode therefore explains why RevolutionZ emphasizes vision and strategy. It motivates episodes to come and, truth be told, it also begins my journey of moving from no experience with podcasting t...
May 19, 2019•16 min•Season 1Ep. 1
