Remembering Tomorrow
From SDS to Life After Capitalism: A Memoir
Published on 4. May 2010
480 pages
978-1-60980-001-7 (ISBN)
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In this lucid political memoir, veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality. Albert, a uniquely visionary figure, recounts a life of uncompromising commitment to creating change one step at a time. Whether chronicling the battles against the Vietnam War, those waged on Boston campuses, or the challenges of creating living, breathing alternative social models, Albert brings a keen and unwavering sense of justice to his work, pointing the way forward for the next generation.
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English
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New York
United States
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Reflowable
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0,62 MB
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978-1-60980-001-7 (9781609800017)
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01/2007
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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MICHAEL ALBERT is a leading critic on political economy, U.S.foreign policy, and the media. A veteran writer and activist, he currently works with Z Magazine and the website Znet, both of which he cofounded. Schooled in the New Left and anti-Vietnam War movements and an activist ever since, Albert primarily focuses on matters of movement building and creating alternative media. He developed, along with Robin Hahnel, the economic vision called participatory economics. He lives in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, with his wife and partner, Lydia Sargent.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- REMEMBERING TOMORROW
- Acknowledgements
- Wheel of Law
- Introduction
- PART 1 - The Old Folks' Home At MIT
- Chapter 1 - Too Young to Notice
- Civil Rights and the New Left
- Stage Three, Please
- Chapter 2 - Dachau on the Charles
- Fraternity Rush Riot
- Summer Job, Something for Nothing
- Leaving AEPi
- MIT Teaches, Too
- Marxism Afternoon
- Chapter 3 - Yesterday's Papers
- The Glue That Binds Us All
- Paint that Slogan
- Chutzpah Lessons & Results
- Interior Design
- Church Service
- Chapter 4 - Spiritual Crossroads
- Sanctuaries
- Meeting Tactics
- Abbie Hoffman
- Theater Lives
- Getting High
- Stoned Cold Picnic
- Musical Interlude and Some Films Too
- Chapter 5 - Stargazing
- Debating Hump
- Fearing Killian
- There Ain't Nothing Like Ali
- Stars Are Us
- The Zone
- The Incongruous Star: Noam Chomsky
- Chapter 6 - Why Do It?
- Would You Torch a Library?
- The Provost's Proposition
- Chemicals, Son?
- Reasons for Rejecting Lucre
- Chomsky and My Career
- Chapter 7 - Campus Organizing
- Damning Dow
- The Calculus of Dissent
- Cynicism 101
- Organizing Mechanics
- Chapter 8 - Big Man on Campus
- UAP: To Win or to Educate, That's the Wrong Question
- The Fame Factor and Snowballing Individualism
- Chapter 9 - Heating Up and Melting Down
- Divesting or Transforming
- Human Donuts
- Strategic Options
- Exiting MIT
- Yearbook Time Machine
- PART 2 - The Ringing Of Revolution
- Chapter 10 - Bean Town
- The Old Mole Forever Surfacing
- CD Too
- White Rioting
- Chapter 11 - Washington Bullets
- Hard Rain
- Pentagon Demo
- Mr. CIA
- May Day
- Poland No Joke
- Chapter 12 - Bread and Roses
- Dirty Stories
- Women in the Movement
- Women Readjust the Left
- Curious Courtship
- Women and Revolution
- Chapter 13 - Lydia and Life
- Dates and Lovers
- Lydia for Life
- Marriage Madness
- Women Know More: Yes and No
- Children
- Aging
- Living Radical and Socializing
- Chapter 14 - The Action Faction
- SLF Booted Out
- Weather Forecast
- My Adventurism
- Timeline Confusions
- Chapter 15 - The Black Panthers
- From Smack to the Little Red Book
- Intercommunalism
- Chapter 16 - Black Like Who?
- Bar Mitzvahed into Radicalism?
- Blacks and Me
- MIT Blackness
- Halloween Bash
- It's Self-Image, Stupid
- Chapter 17 - What About Class?
- Booking It
- Antagonizing Aronowitz
- Visiting Ehrenreich and a Sad Outcome
- The Real Deal
- No Nukes and Class
- Chapter 18 - Sixties People and Books
- America's Gandhi
- Mr. SDS
- Fine-Tuning Music and Capitalism
- To Golden Pond and Fonda on Beauty
- About the Sixties
- Chapter 19 - Still Walking
- Incomplete Symphony
- Where'd We Go?
- PART 3 - Channeling Walking Butterflies
- Chapter 20 - Tech Tooling & Harvard Ed.
- MIT Learning
- High School Hijinks
- Not Much Ed. at the Harvard Ed. School
- Chapter 21 - Becoming an Economist
- Off To Amherst
- Doctoral Revelation
- Doctoral Denial
- Drummed Out
- Chapter 22 - The Responsibility of Intellectuals
- Teaching for Chomsky
- U Mass Teaching
- You're Fired!
- Dating and Power Relations
- Chapter 23 - Prison School?
- Threats Work
- Inmates Teach the Teacher
- Walking Butterflies
- PART 4 - Tomorrow's Seeds Today
- Chapter 24 - Redefining Publishing
- Emulating SEP
- Between SEP's Covers
- Friendly Fascism and Editing Others
- The Wharton School's Finest
- Noam Chomsky Published But Not Reviewed
- No Nukes
- The Toffler Wave
- Book Missed: Fat Is Beautiful
- Small Isn't Always Beautiful
- Unfriendly Seas
- Successes and Marginalization
- Soaring Mice
- Balancing SEP Bias
- Where to, Whitey?
- National Averages and Left Averages
- Do As I Say Or I Won't Pay
- Financing SEP into Existence
- Tandler Tango
- Rockefeller Rocks
- Donor Delusions
- Comfortable Anticapitalism
- Hunting Hunter
- Hypocrisy or Sound Policy?
- Zevin, Houses, Packages, Printers, and the IRS
- The Open Question: Restauranteering
- Chapter 25 - Monthly Z
- Z Magazine
- Sporty Savior?
- Ostrich Eyes
- Cocky Cockburn
- Cockburn and Hitchens, Too
- Z Media Institute
- Z Papers, Robin Hahnel, and Me
- Chapter 26 - Going Cyber
- Kapor and Bricklin: A Communications Problem
- LOL and Share World
- ZNet: Cyber Success
- Keeping On Keeping On
- Chapter 27 - Alternative Media
- Media and Democracy
- Time and Us
- PART 5 - Mind Trips
- Chapter 28 - Pomo: What Is It Good For?
- Postmodern Car Ride
- Close Encounter of the Pomo Kind
- Chapter 29 - Better Flakes
- Theory: What Is It Good For?
- Marxism and Leninism
- Britain and Marxism
- Class or Multitude
- Liberating Theory
- Better Economics
- Chapter 30 - Principia Utopia
- Thrillers Reveal Popular Consciousness
- Vision Problem
- Italy and Needing Vision
- Seeking Vision
- Brazil and Argentina Conclude the Case
- Parecon
- Australia, Austria, and Vision Gaining Ground
- Rimini and Vision Applauded
- Turkey, India, and Relevance
- Venezuela's Path: Pareconist?
- Parsociety
- Chapter 31 - Preconditions
- History's Locomotion
- Chess a Go Go
- The Megaphone Problem
- Apocalyptic Organizing
- The Stickiness Problem
- The Umbrella Problem
- The Lifestyle Problem
- The Class Problem
- The Electoral Problem
- Chapter 32 - Actualization
- Organization to Liberate Society
- We Stand for Peace and Justice
- Advocate or Overhaul
- Life After Capitalism
- Seeking Serious Intellectual Engagement
- My Case Studies
- IPPS
- Chapter 33 - Our Generations
- Message to My Friends and Myself
- Bringing the Ship In
- Index
- Copyright Page
