No Bosses: Life After Capitalism
Presents economic vision to answer, You don't like capitalism. What do you want to replace it?
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Life After Capitalism begins at naught and ends with what you will hopefully agree is a compelling vision for a new economy, including description and argument for values and for main or defining institutions and rebuttal of criticisms. The idea is participants should end up able to compellingly answer what do you want instead of capitalism for the economy. The main areas addressed are production, consumption, and allocation including current and preferred future institutions. Thus on the one hand private ownership, top down decision making, corporate divisions of labor, and markets and central planning for allocation, and on the other hand collective ownership, self management, balanced job complexes, and participatory planning for allocation. Each week has a video lecture, a different text lecture covering the same overall material but more formally, and often some extra totally optional reading, such as interviews, debates, etc. No prior background is necessary.
Your Instructor
Michael is a long time activist, writer, and organizer known primarily for his affiliation with Z Communications and his original writing on and support for Participatory Economics and Participatory Society. He has written hundreds of articles, over twenty books, one novel, one screenplay, and has initiated numerous institutions and projects. Especially germane for SSCC, he has taught in diverse settings from universities to prisons, online and offline, and is one of the hosts of the school School for Social and Cultural Change (SSCC)..
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Hello,
I look forward to meeting you and to sharing time in Zoom sessions, and addressing comments you post under lectures and other materials. If you are moved to sign up for the course, you will notice there are three prices: $60, $100, and $150 you can choose from. The funds for all SSCC courses go overwhelmingly to the faculty person, in this case me, with a percent going as well to SSCC. Even our high price, for those able to assist us by paying it, is quite low by online course standards. So we hope those who can afford to pay the basic or higher price will opt to do so, but we will also be profoundly grateful to and happy about participation by all who have to instead opt for the low price. If even the $60 for eight weeks and permanent access is more than you can manage, feel free to write me at [email protected] and I will try to intervene and help.
Looking forward to seeing you in class - you need only click to enroll,
Michael Albert