Michael Albert, who is expected shortly in Greece in the context of his world tour to promote the model for a post-capitalist economy under the name “PARticipatory ECONomics”, is a leading cadre of the World Social Forum (WSF) and a close associate of Noam Chomsky. He is also the founder of ΖNet, i.e. the electronic empire which mainly promotes the views of the international reformist Left. The model, which has been designed by Albert (together with Hahnel) over the course of the last ten years, is now suggested that it could be utilised to put flesh on the bones of the abstract WSF vision for “an alternative world (which) is possible”. In this context, a massive promotion campaign to promote the book under the same title has been launched through the use of Znet’s list of hundreds of thousands of subscribers and the backing of the ex anti capitalist and now reformist Left—like the New Left Review which published his book. However, although it has become more urgent than ever before to consider the concrete forms that a post capitalist society could take, following the collapse of “actually existing socialism” and the huge doubts that this historic event casted over the very possibility to organise a post-capitalist society, I will briefly try to show that Parecon is, in effect, more disorientating than thought-provoking for the following fundamental reasons:
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