Date: March 10, 2019Author: Paul Cockshott 1 Capitalism Class society The most important thing about capitalism is that it is a class system. It is a society based on class hierarchy dominated by a rich upper class. Like any class system it is unequal. Like any class system it is based on exploitation, on majority working […]
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Date: June 14, 2018Author: Paul Cockshott Allin and I have at times been criticised for proposing the use of labour time accounting in Towards a New Socialism . Surely, people have said, you can not use abstract labour in a socialist economy since abstract labour is a specific historical phenomenon of capitalism? The idea that under
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Date: March 5, 2017Author: Paul Cockshott The term law of value has exoteric and esoteric meanings. The exoteric or superficial meaning is that in capitalist type economy, relative labour values will act as an attractor for relative prices. The more esoteric meaning is that the distribution relations in all societies are constrained by the distribution
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Paul Cockshott 28 Nov 19 In early November I was presenting a talk on planning algorithms to the Historical materialism conference in London. A major theme of the conference was historical materialism in the context of the climate crisis. One thing that struck me at the meeting was that people seem to be underestimating the
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Paul Cockshott We do not consider that the Transitional Programme of the Fourth, or Trotskyist, International can be considered a valid model for a communist programme. This document is ruled out of court by virtue of its many confused and non-Marxist formulations. First there is the matter of its structure. A communist programme must scientifically
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[I]t is the ultimate aim of this work, to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society – K. Marx, 1867 Preface to Capital, vol. 1 Concepts from classical physics in political economy
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I shall be elaborating on the following theses: The inability of 20th century socialism to progress to communism led to the crisis of theUSSR. Communism requires a definite stage of development of technology. This stage was only reached at the very end of the 20th century. But this problem of technical adequacy can not be
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