Real Utopia now available for pre-order
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- "Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century" is a new book about a more just and human society, and the efforts underway to help win it -- a book to which CAPES has contributed.
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The book's blurb describes more: "Instead of simply declaring 'another world is possible,' the writers in this collection engage with what that world would look like, how it would function, and how our commitment to just outcomes is related to the sort of institutions we maintain.
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Topics include participatory economics, political vision, education, architecture, artists in a free society, environmentalism, work after capitalism, and poly-culturalism. The catchall phrase here is 'participatory society' -- one that is directly democratic and seeks institutional solutions to complex sociological and economic questions."
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Contributors include Michael Albert, Barbara Ehrenreich, Steve Shalom, Robin Hahnel, Maria Trigona, Justin Podur, Tom Wetzel, Cynthia Peters, Andrej Grubacic, Mandisi Majavu, and members of CAPES, among others.
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You can learn more and pre-order here:
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The book will be a topic of discussion at the next meeting of CAPES (the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society) -- this Wednesday, May 14, at 6:30pm at the Mercury Cafe (1505 W. Chicago Ave., in Chicago).