Episode 39, the 7th presenting the screenplay Next American Revolution, discusses some RPS features, some class issues and conflicts, and prison organizing. Support the show
The 38th episode of RevolutionZ is the sixth to present a part of the hoped for movie, Next American Revolution. In this segment we learn of various Hollywood organizing, among other events. Support the show
A discussion of Community and Culture vision for a participatory socialist society. Support the show
An update on the status and coming features of RevolutionZ and of the screenplay Next American Revolution including the first exchange with Hollywood about the latter.... Support the show
This is episode 36 of RevolutionZ - but the fifth presenting the screenplay Next American Revolution in audio format. If considers some economic and health struggles with special emphasis on class issues and the formation of RPS. Support the show
Episode 35 of RevolutionZ continues the attempt to present the hoped for movie - Next American Revolution - verbally, capturing the dialog and describing the visuals. The focus is on some elements of RPS politics and organizing. Support the show
Stephen Shalom returns to discuss political vision further, including issues of electoral politics. Support the show
The 33rd episode of RevolutionZ is the third episode devoted to verbally conveying the audio and visual content of the proposed movie, The Next American Revolution. Support the show
Episode 32 is the third verbally presenting the hoped for movie, Next American Revolution. Itdescribes some early organizing, including at Amazonia and an oil refinery in Olympia. Support the show
This episode further explores issues of gender and sexuality in a new society. The guest is Cynthia Peters, long time grass roots activist and author of kinship vision. Support the show
The first episode of likely twelve that will in sum verbally detail, scene by scene, a movie I hope to see made, titled Next American Revolution. Support the show
A short episode introduction the idea and some background of a new sequence of episodes. NAR stands for Next American Revolution. The 0 indicates this is just setting the scene. The sequence will present verbally, as best I can, the Screenplay Next American Revolution, or, actually, the film I hope to see emerge from it. It is a bit of an experiment... Support the show
Ep 28 of RevolutionZ discusses activist issues of power, influence, and relating to government. Support the show
Episode 27 of RevolutionZ discusses what new kinship relations - family, nurturance, sexuality, etc. - might look like in a new participatory society. What institutional changes can achieve feminist goals? Support the show
Episode 26 considers Conspiracy Theorizing and its implications when it is applicable, and when it is not applicable. Support the show
Stephen Shalom discusses institutional vision for the legislative and judicial functions of the polity which he calls participatory polity, or parpolity, for short. Support the show
RevolutionZ Episode 24 takes up the issue of polity or government - how might a participatory society deal with issues of legislation, implementation, and adjudication consistently with desired values including self management and justice? Support the show
This episode discusses the 2020 election and the third Democratic Party candidates debate. It agrees with and enlarges upon familiar left criticisms of U.S. presidential elections, yet simultaneously argues the importance and potentials of this coming election. Support the show
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. Support the show
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. Support the show
What does favoring participatory socialism imply about strategy in the large...organizing, organization, etc. Support the show
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? Support the show
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. Support the show
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. Support the show
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. Support the show
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. Support the show
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. Support the show
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. Support the show
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 different approach for allocation. Support the show
A brief account of the experience of Starting and Conducting RevolutionZ so far... Support the show
