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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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Networked Society 'On the Brink'

In On The Brink we discuss the past, present and future of connectivity with a mix of people including David Rowan, chief editor of Wired UK; Caterina Fake, ...
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January 8, 2012 1:46 PM
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Jeremy Rifkin, 'The Third Industrial Revolution' (with Charlie Rose 06.01.12)

Jeremy Rifkin, 'The Third Industrial Revolution' "How lateral power is transforming energy, the economy, and the world." Charlie Rose 06.01.12 [1080p] http:/...
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January 8, 2012 2:19 AM
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Conversations w/ Great Minds - Dr. David Graeber Debt: The 1st 5000 years P1

Dr. David Graeber, professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London on his book - Debt: The First 5000 years. How the concepts of debt a...
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January 7, 2012 4:59 PM
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E.O.Wright: Occupy Wall Street and Transformational Strategy | New Left Project

Erik Olin Wright’s ZSpace Page The beginning of the new year seems an appropriate time to reflect upon the progress, and potential, of what must surely rank as one of the most astonishing and encouraging developments of 2011: the emergence and...
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Tax Research UK

Tax Research UK | real utopias | Scoop.it
Anti-poverty campaigner and tax expert Richard Murphy writes about economics, accounting, tax policy, tax havens and more.
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HuffPost's Latest e-Book: OCCUPY: Why It Started. Who's Behind It. What's Next.

HuffPost's Latest e-Book: OCCUPY: Why It Started. Who's Behind It. What's Next. | real utopias | Scoop.it
I'm delighted to announce the publication of HuffPost's fourth e-book, OCCUPY: Why It Started. Who's Behind It. What's Next. -- the result of three months of near obsessive reporting by our staff on the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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BROADWAY RECALL: Protest Theatre

BROADWAY RECALL:  Protest Theatre | real utopias | Scoop.it
If the Occupy Wall Street movement had an official musical, it would likely be The Cradle Will Rock, Marc Blitzstein’s allegorical tale of a union leader who leads a fight against a wealthy businessman who controls his town’s police, press, church,...
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Class 01 Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Class 1 Introduction. An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Volume I of Marx's Capital in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. ...
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Michael Parenti: The Goals and Results of American Imperialism

Michael Parenti: The Goals and Results of American Imperialism | real utopias | Scoop.it
Progressive political scientist Michael Parenti is in fine form in this recent speech, which brings together his key insights about the practice and purpose of the U.S. Empire and imperialism. Some of Parenti's main points will be familiar to ...
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PJ O'Rourke: Are the Peasants Revolting? Occupy Wall Street's ...

PJ O'Rourke: Are the Peasants Revolting? Occupy Wall Street's ... | real utopias | Scoop.it
Occupy Wall Street (and This, That, and the Other Place) might seem, at first video streaming glance, to be singular among protest movements. But—with its vaporous ends and its grounded means—“Occupy” is recognizable ...
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January 7, 2012 3:02 PM
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Post on Politics: Ecological and Environmental Renewal Requires ...

Post on Politics: Ecological and Environmental Renewal Requires ... | real utopias | Scoop.it
In a panel discussion at New York University last month, Immanuel Wallerstein, Michael Mann, Craig Calhoun and other noted speakers addressed the question, “Does Capitalism Have a Future?” There wasn't a consensus ...
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Troubled Kashmir » Blog Archive

Troubled Kashmir » Blog Archive | real utopias | Scoop.it
Immanuel Wallerstein, the known social scientist, views the Arab spring as a continuation of the unfinished movement of 1968 which, after becoming a worldwide movement, did not achieve its goals. The current surge in the ...
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January 7, 2012 3:00 PM
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The Zeitgeist Evolution: THRIVE: full-length documentary

The Zeitgeist Evolution: THRIVE: full-length documentary | real utopias | Scoop.it
... John Gatto, John Robbins, Deepak Chopra, David Icke, Catherine Austin Fitts, G. Edward Griffin, Bill Still, John Perkins, Paul Hawken, Aqeela Sherrills, Evon Peter, Angel Kyodo Williams, Elisabet Sahtouris, Amy Goodman, ...
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ZCommunications | Parecon and Marxism by Michael Albert | ZNet Article

ZCommunications | Parecon and Marxism by Michael Albert | ZNet Article | real utopias | Scoop.it
...management, as the source of power of the coordinator class, as a subclass of economic power in Mann's IEMP model?
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January 7, 2012 2:49 PM
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OCCUPY AMERICA: THEY DONT CARE ABOUT US - BKCASHMERE ft. MICHAEL JACKSON

A song dedicated to the Occupy Movements titled "OCCUPY AMERICA:THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US" by BKCASHMERE featuring Michael Jackson.
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January 7, 2012 2:40 PM
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Some Big Things Ha-Joon Chang Doesn’t Tell You About Capitalism | Dissident Voice

Some Big Things Ha-Joon Chang Doesn’t Tell You About Capitalism | Dissident Voice | real utopias | Scoop.it
In a word, the problem isn’t neoliberalism – it’s capitalism.
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The Ruling Class Does Not Rule: Notes on the Marxist Theory of the State

The Ruling Class Does Not Rule: Notes on the Marxist Theory of the State | real utopias | Scoop.it
(1987) Block. Revising State Theory Essay in Politics and Postindustrialism. Read by researchers in: 100% Social Sciences. The Marxist theory of the state remains a muddle despite the recent revival of interest of the subject.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow - FT.com

Thinking, Fast and Slow - FT.com | real utopias | Scoop.it
There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow.
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Chris Anderson: The Year's 7 Most Powerful Ideas - Forbes

Chris Anderson: The Year's 7 Most Powerful Ideas - Forbes | real utopias | Scoop.it
"Here are seven ideas that can make powerful, positive and measurable differences in how we create the future," says Chris Anderson. Click the gallery above to see Chris Anderson's picks.
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Jeffrey Sachs: 'That's not a free market, that's a game'

Jeffrey Sachs: 'That's not a free market, that's a game' | real utopias | Scoop.it
The controversial economist talks about the collapse of the global financial system and how to end the crisis.
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January 7, 2012 2:35 PM
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Is Capitalism Doomed? - Nouriel Roubini - Project Syndicate

Is Capitalism Doomed? - Nouriel Roubini - Project Syndicate | real utopias | Scoop.it
Karl Marx was right, it seems, in arguing that globalization, financial intermediation run amok, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self-destruct. So what can be done to prevent that outcome?
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On Occupy and the Global South | The Science of Destruction

On Occupy and the Global South | The Science of Destruction | real utopias | Scoop.it
January 2, 2012 by morosopher




Jason Hickel makes an important point when he writes in his article over at Common Dreams that the Occupy movement has failed so far to capture the imagina...
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America Beyond Capitalism: Is It Possible? | | AlterNet

America Beyond Capitalism: Is It Possible? | | AlterNet | real utopias | Scoop.it
Thousands of co-ops, worker-owned businesses, land trusts, and municipal enterprises are quietly beginning to democratize the deep substructure of the American economic system.
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January 7, 2012 3:21 AM
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David Harvey At Large - Swans

Anarkismo.netDavid Harvey At LargeSwans(Swans - January 2, 2012) A recent, informal survey of the influence of Marxism in the US academic world, relative to a decade or two ago, reveals a largely melancholy picture -- but with an unanticipated,...
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"Scientific Development" and China's Leadership Transition - Huffington Post

"Scientific Development" and China's Leadership Transition - Huffington Post | real utopias | Scoop.it
Telegraph.co.uk"Scientific Development" and China's Leadership TransitionHuffington PostSince at least 2009, Xi has been calling publicly for the CCP to renew its identity as a "Marxist study-oriented Party" and its efforts to "integrate the basic...
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Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation