Funny you should mention this
Funny you should mention this as I’m reading a book on “Anarchist Economics” that AK Press have sent us for review. And what does the first article advocate but “parecon”? I see there’s an Afterword by Michael Albert himself. I’m hoping that in between some more sensible ideas will emerge. After all, there are anarchists who are communists and want the same sort of classless, stateless, moneyless, wageless society we do.I can’t understand why some anarchists should fall for Albert’s detailed blueprint for a society which would be a bureaucratic nightmare of form-filling with your consumption monitored by your neighbours and your work performance by your work mates, and with rationing taking place through plastic cards registering the “labour-credits” you’ve earned instead of conventional money.