Michael Albert is a political theorist, writer, and activist with more than fifty years in radical organizing. He is co-founder of South End Press, Z Magazine, The Z Media Institute, and the driving force behind ZNetwork, a long-running platform for independent left media. Albert is best known for developing, with economist Robin Hahnel, the vision called Participatory Economics.
His book Parecon: Life After Capitalism brought that framework to a wide audience and sparked debate among economists and activists worldwide. Other books include Remembering Tomorrow, a memoir of political life and activism, and No Bosses, his most recent work of economic vision..
The Wind Cries Freedom is his most ambitious work of political imagination. It asks not only what a better world might look like, but what organizing and collective courage could actually bring it into being. Albert continues to write and organize and he hosts the podcast titled RevolutionZ.
Noam Chomsky said this about Michael: “I’ve known Mike Albert very well for over 50 years and have followed his activities closely. He’s the most effective organizer I’ve known. He has initiated a series of imaginative and highly successful projects, while also doing outstanding and quite detailed work on how to develop a truly free and participatory society. A really remarkable record, still proceeding in new and promising directions.”
Miguel Guevara is an envisioned revolutionary journalist in an evolving future U.S. Participatory Society. A soccer star who was sidelined by bad knees, an aspiring novelist who was sidelined by resistant words, Guevara became a successful journalist reporting his times.
Guevara is the interviewer throughout The Wind Cries Freedom. At the close of the book, he becomes Press Secretary of a new Revolutionary Participatory Administration.