From: michael a. lebowitz (mlebowit@SFU.CA)
Date: Wed Oct 25 2006 - 23:38:07 EDT
At 21:03 25/10/2006, jerry wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carl Davidson [mailto:carld717@aol.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:27 PM
>
>
>[Chicago's David Schweickart, Philosophy, Loyola, is in Venezuela, invited
>to present his theory of 'Economic Democracy' as a market socialist
>alternative for the 21st Century that is in tune with global justice,
>paticipatory democracy and Karl Marx's orginal ideas as well.
Don't panic, folks! There is no special significance re a
market socialist path in Venezuela. I invited David S on behalf of
Centro Internacional Miranda as director of our Socialism for the
21st Century programme. The occasion is our publication of a
Venezuelan edition of a Spanish book drawn from Science & Society
essays. Among the other collaborators are Al Campbell (who was here
teaching in the School of Planning and gave a talk on 6 October),
Robin Hahnel and ope-l denizen David Laibman (who arrive tomorrow
night and speak on Saturday) and joint authors and ope-l folks Allyn
Cottrell and Paul Cockshott (neither of them able to come on this
occasion). In this group, David S is actually the outlier.
Among events in the works in this programme for next year
are visits by Marty Hart-Landsberg and (ope-l lurker) Paul Burkett.
More immediately, upcoming CIM events include a dialogue between
Chomsky and a group of Venezuelan intellectuals, a 3 day
international conference on communal banks, a book launch of the
Venezuelan edition of my "Build it Now: Socialism for the 21st
Century' and a working meeting on the Bank of the South (which will
include Eric Toussaint and, hopefully, lurker Claudio Katz)--- all
this, incidentally by mid-November.
One of these days our website will finally fly!
in solidarity,
michael
Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
Currently based in Venezuela.
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