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Socialism in America Is Closer Than You Think

by Gar Alperovitz

As ever-greater numbers of Americans are forced to ask fundamental questions about where their nation is going, we must start offering the answers. read more
Movement Strategy & History
Metamapping the ecosystem building the next economy

Metamapping the ecosystem building the next economy

by Jules Peck

What do we, as the constituent parts of a potential movement for a next economy, have in common? What principles, values and alternative economic paradigms motivate our actions, and where are we ultimately aligned? How do we talk about this more openly? read more
Movement Strategy & History
Markets in the next system

Markets in the Next System

by Jesse A. Myerson

Capital markets are prone to careening wildly between booms, when they allot far too many financial resources, and busts, when they allot far too few. read more
Democracy & Governance Democratic Ownership
What’s Next? Parecon, or Participatory Economics

What’s Next? Parecon, or Participatory Economics

by Michael Albert

Parecon describes the core institutions required to generate solidarity, equity, self-management, and an ecologically sound and classless economy. read more
Public Planning
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Resource: System Changers

Through their work, The Point People have seen pioneers emerging in the field of “systems innovation” from different sectors, leading very different kinds of organizations and speaking very different professional languages. read more

The Next System Teach-Ins: A call to action

Our society faces a systemic crisis, not simply political and economic troubles. Traditional strategies to achieve equitable and sustainable social, economic, and ecological outcomes no longer work. Therefore, we need to find the next system. read more
Movement Strategy & History
System change and community organizing

System change and community organizing

by “Mother” Mamie Moore, Kate Diedrick

Kate Diedrick of Solidarity Research Center talks with Atlanta-based community organizer “Mother” Mamie Moore about her trajectory as an activist and advocate for system change starting at the neighborhood level. read more
Movement Strategy & History
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Resource: ReThink Health

ReThink Health awakens change-makers to what is possible. They spur big-picture thinking that allows leaders to step outside their own frames of reference. read more
Health & Wellbeing
The Internet Needs a New Economy

The Internet Needs a New Economy

by Nathan Schneider, Trebor Scholz

The tech industry, for all its talk of “sharing” and “democratizing,” has become addicted to a business model of massive early investment in exchange for massive short-term returns. read more
Democracy & Governance Democratic Ownership