Re: (Fwd) Re: Project for the First People's Century

Dear Dr. Rojas,

        As I continue to work on my article for your Project, I have had
occasion to re-read Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn, THE SPIRAL
OF CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM: TOWARD GLOBAL DEMOCRACY (Lynne Rienner,
2000).  This is certainly one of the most enterprising and comprehensive
studies of possible and desirable human futures yet attempted by
contemporary social scientists.  It should be known to all your
signatories and deserves much fuller discussion on WSN.

        Warren


On Sat, 3 May 2003 wwagar@binghamton.edu wrote:

>
>       Please forgive the immodesty, but I would like to think that some
> of my books belong on the list of titles you seek to compile.  They
> include THE CITY OF MAN (Houghton Mifflin, 1963;  and Penguin, 1967);
> BUILDING THE CITY OF MAN (Grossman, 1971);  and A SHORT HISTORY OF THE
> FUTURE (U. of Chicago Press, 1989;  3rd edition, 1999), which imagines a
> global democratic commonwealth in being much later in this century.  Also
> Dr. Prugovecki's futuristic novels, MEMOIRS OF THE FUTURE (Cross Cultural
> Publications, 2001) and DAWN (Xlibris, 2002), offering the vision of an
> electronically mediated planetary democracy known as "Terra."
>
>       Cordially,
>
>       Warren
>
> W. Warren Wagar
> Department of History
> Binghamton University (SUNY)
>
>
> On Sat, 3 May 2003 robinson@rojas.net wrote:
>
> > G. Koehler wrote (2 May) the following:
> >
> > "Democracy in/of the world(-)system, including synomyms like 
>democraticglobal commonwealth, city of man, and various definitions of 
>worldwide
> > democracy, from liberal to socialist and over to ecological, could be
> > included in PFPC, in order to describe desirable alternatives to the global
> > status quo. In this regard, links from your PFPC site to certain articles in
> > JWSR could be of interest to a wider audience.
> > GK".
> >
> > I do agree totally with GK point of view. PFPC is a project aiming at
> > having many of us involved in the publication of texts. Therefore, I
> > would like to be advised about specific titles, like some members
> > of the WSN al already doing. By the way, in RRojas Databank, in
> > the section TOPICS, you can link to the TOTALITY of papers
> > published by JWSR. It is necessary, I think, to work on some short
> > statement of principles (I am saying this for the second time) for
> > the project. I am waiting for more of us expressing opinions about
> > PFPC, and then trying to work on the statement of principles.
> >
> > R. Rojas