Arguments For Socialism
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Paul Cockshott
Socialist Strategy on Tax and Tax Evation
Here are slides for the series of talks on socialist strategy as a downloadable and printable pdf file The tax system of the UK is blatantly biased in favour of the wealthy and those who live off dividends and against wage earners. How can the biases be reversed? How can the loopholes used by the
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Leo He Zhao (Goods for the people), The future of China
Today we are joined by Leo He Zhao, founder of ‘Goods for the people’, a fashion cooperative with a focus on modern socialist values. We go into China, its history, and how that history has lead to the success of the country today. We also get into South African – modern dance music and how
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A Conversation with Paul Cockshott
Today we are joined by Paul Cockshott, author of “Towards a new socialism”, his latest book “How The World Works”, and member of the MTT steering committee. We take a trip with Paul through a windy trail in Scotland that takes us all the way to eastern Europe through the 70’s, 80’s, and early 90’s.
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Maya Forstater and Tony Blair’s post truth era
Date: December 26, 2019 Author: Paul Cockshott The case of Maya Forstater, which as already widely reported in the UK press gained further prominence after famous Scottish author Joanne (K) Rowling tweeted in support of her: Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your
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Historical materialism and the repudiation of subjectivism
Date: May 4, 2020Author: Paul Cockshott This is not a new post but a corrected transcript of a talk given by me, as one of the Worker’s Party of Scotland representatives to the Open Polemic Conference about 25 years ago. Open Polemic was a journal that was formed in the wake of the Soviet collapse
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Defending the labour theory of value again
Date: May 7, 2020Author: Paul Cockshott There is a recent currently fashionable idea that Marx did not put forward a labour theory of value. I am surprised at how often I have come across this view over the last 20 years or so. Up until late 20th century, say until the fall of the USSR,
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The US Crisis
Date: June 18, 2020Author: Paul Cockshott Back in 2010 the materialist historian Turchin predicted in an article in Nature that 2020 would see a major outbreak of social disorder in the USA. His work distinguished between the long term stress that a society experiences and short term triggers. The long term stress predisposes a state