Who benefits from socialism?
Video telling the old old story of just how much we are exploited and how much we would gain from abolishing exploitation. Based on the book Towards a New Socialism.
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Inequality in Britain
This covers the section on exploitation in the UK from the book Towards a New Socialism Kindle version here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paul-Cocksho… or pdf here http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/… Print edition from the publisher website http://spokesmanbooks.com/ I used a new USB mike, is the sound better?
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Socialist Economic Planning and Algorithms
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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Abstract And Concrete Labour
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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Big Data and Super-Computers: foundations of Cyber Communism
Date: July 24, 2017 Author: Paul Cockshott I shall be elaborating on the following theses: The inability of 20th century socialism to progress to communism led to the crisis of the USSR. 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
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Socialists can never support prostitution
Date: December 1, 2017 Author: Paul Cockshott Marxian socialists have long been opponents of prostitution aiming to eliminate it once they came to power. Kollontai[1]speaking well before the cant about sex work had been invented, and in an early socialist, rather than capitalist, economy understood very clearly why it exists in capitalist countries and why
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Choose the future, choose socialism.
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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Abstract labour and socialism
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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