A palestra abordará os debates sobre o cálculo socialista e os avanços que ocorreram devido a Kantorovich x von Mises. Então, serão observadas as limitações do método de planejamento de Kantorovich e como elas podem ser superadas usando técnicas que foram originalmente desenvolvidas para pesquisa de redes neurais. Ao final, serão apresentados dois pacotes de […]
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Date: November 15, 2019 Author: Paul Cockshott The issue of abstract and concrete labour is relatively simple. The two concepts are dealt with in a few very clear paragraphs at the beginning of Capital. But unfortunately it has, over the last couple of decades, been mystified by some Marxists. Misleading claims have been put about
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Date: September 4, 2019Author: Paul Cockshott A recent article made comparisons between the ‘atonement’ of the German state for Nazi crimes and the issue of reparations to the descendants of slaves in the USA There seem to be a whole mass of confused issues being put forward in this reparation demand. The first point is that
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Date: August 27, 2019 Author: Paul Cockshott Anyone familiar with the Communist Manifesto will remember that one of its demands is for the nationalisation of land and the allocation of land-rent to fund public purposes. The objective was spelt out in more detail in the Demands of the Communist Party In Germany of the same
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Date: September 5, 2019 Author: Paul Cockshott Since various economics professors noticed that Marxists had been publishing articles showing, from empirical data, that the labour theory of value was right[ 5,3,4,6,1 7,2 ], they have felt the need to come up with objections. Whilst in the past the objections economists raised to the labour theory
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We know that the share of wages in national income is relatively stable in the range 40% to 60% If follows from this that the share of surplus also is stable in this range. It also follows that the magnitude of surplus must be strongly correlated with the size over time of the workforce The
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Date: July 4, 2019Author: Paul Cockshott 1 Introduction Louis Althusser is a controversial figure: murderer, one time communist philosopher, massive guru to generations of cultural studies authors. His key paper on ideology[2] has, according to Google Scholar, been cited over thirteen thousand times1. He is clearly a very influential philosopher. But here is the paradox.
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Paul Cockshott July 6, 2019 Introduction This is the second part of my critique of Althusser’s theory of ideology. It is a bit more technical than the last since Althusser gives a very abstruse definition of ideology and it needs a fair bit of formal and pictorial analysis to pick it apart. What is the
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Socialist calculation: the computer engineering problem. In the same year that Allin Cottrell and I published Towards a New Socialism(TNS), I also brought out a couple of computer science books. The two CS books might seem to have little to do with the book on socialism but they are linked by an intellectual history of
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