Like Democratic-party psyops and water carriers Kyle Kulinski, Krystal Ball, Cenk Uygur, Emma Vigeland, Sam Seder, David Pakman, or Thom Hartmann, Mike’s job now is to tell you he agrees with you how bad the Democrats are, but you have to vote for them anyway because the Republicans are just so much worse. Vote blue no matter who!

Such an embarrassment that the genius who came up with parecon is now just an ordinary, TDS-afflicted shitlib.

Fortunately, since Trump’s not yet in office, we don’t have to worry yet about anyone “gut[ting] the press.”

And Trump hurt Jim Acosta’s feelings…

The VBNMW liberals always describe the Republicans as fascists, but never seem to be able to apply that appellative to the Democrats. Fortunately, the Democrats have never done anything fascist…

Mike, please just hurry up and die before you can do any more damage to participatory economics! Your very existence at this point just convinces people that parecon is just liberal horse shit.

You lived long enough to see yourself become the villain, and now pareconists are going to have to apologize for you before we can even begin to discuss the only worthwhile alternative to capitalism and all forms of socialism.

Fuck you for doing this. 🙃

Mike, please make like Lydia and just go die already before you do any more damage to the cause of participatory economics.  Everything you do at this point just makes parecon look like a liberal psyop.

In 2004, the left argued people should vote for Kerry over Bush to send a message to the rest of the world that the people of America did not support Bush’s invasion of Iraq. I hated Kerry, but agreed with the logic and voted for the horse-faced war criminal Democratic piece of shit.

The same logic, but with the parties reversed, should have applied in 2024.  But Mike long ago became a water carrier, wittingly or unwittingly, for the Democratic party. And since he doesn’t have the decency to die, he repeatedly tried to frighten you into voting blue no matter who.

Now we see plainly that, as the Muslims in Michigan understood, a vote for Kamala was a vote for genocide.

Who knows what Trump will do after this, but clearly, this wouldn’t have happened had he not won.

Mike, you fucking sellout piece of shit, you’ve put pareconists (all three or four of us, admittedly) in the position where we have to repudiate you in order to have any chance to win anything around parecon.

I’m a pareconist, and I don’t give a fuck about you. You picked the dark side. So please, enjoy your upcoming stay in hell.  Maybe Noam will save you a seat.

A giant once walked here…

Although it will almost certainly never be regarded as such, I believe participatory economics is the greatest intellectual accomplishment in human history.

Decades ago, I thought that, if a parecon were ever to be won, it would not happen until at least 20 years after Michael Albert’s death. Now I think that parecon is unlikely to ever be won, because if people won’t stick together in the good times, then they won’t stick together in the bad times. And people won’t stick together in the good times.

That aside, I still consider myself and identify as a pareconist. I still talk about the theory to anyone who will listen, and I hand out copies of Parecon: Life After Capitalism to anyone who will take them. “Parecon” is literally on my license plate.

While it’s not accurate to say that the biggest impediment to winning parecon is Michael Albert himself, it is very accurate to say that Albert is a huge embarrassment to the economic theory he’s responsible for.

I can’t talk about parecon to anyone without making sure they understand that its principal author, like so many on the left, had his brain broken by Donald Trump. I have to make sure they assess the theory separately from the man who created it, because anyone who makes vote-blue-no-matter-who arguments like Mike does is going to be a dead weight on any effort to win anything positive in the United States, much less the overthrow of the capitalist system.

I’ve long maintained that, until pareconish theory is actually discussed and its implications grappled with, it will not be possible to win any substantive change in the United States. I still believe that; I’ve seen nothing to make me alter my theory of social change. The increased availability of information on the internet has threatened elite interests and caused them to change how they operate, but it hasn’t put fear in them sufficient to cause them to relent on, say, universal health care, which would be a change akin to the victories of Social Security in the 1930s or Medicare in the 1960s — the last time American elites felt truly threatened.

But pareconists of the future (if there are any) should not engage in any undue hagiography around Albert. Tell the truth about the giant he was when he wrote the criminally underrated What Is To Be Undone? (when he was only 27 years old), or the intentionally ignored Unorthodox Marxism (Marxism being the zombie that simply will never die, no matter how many times it’s shot in the head).

If The Poltical Economy of Participatory Economics isn’t the most important book ever written, then it’s its predecessor Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics. Regardless, Parecon: Life After Capitalism is the last useful thing Albert wrote. Albert has spent the last several years a husk of what he once was — a man so dangerous that Hollywood A-lister Mark Wahlberg once used Mike’s website to make a political point — something unthinkable in 2024 as ZNet has long since devolved into pro-Democrat liberal claptrap, an online version of MSNBC.

Take up the inherent morality and strategy of participatory economics despite Michael Albert, not because of him.