Carchedi has recently come out with a paper DETERMINATION AND PROBABILITY IN MARX’S TRANSFORMATION ‘PROBLEM’ in which he tries to take on the variant of Marxist economics that derived from the work of Farjoun and Machover. I pointed the article out to Moshe and he replied that he had had his fill of religious defenders […]| Paul Cockshott's Blog
A Medium channel called Unlearning Economics did a recent critical article of my videos and some of my articles on the labour theory of value. The author seems to have at lease superficially read some of the journal articles on which my videos are based, and since these articles are co-authored he is also criticising […]| Paul Cockshott's Blog
Concept of mode of production and social formation All historical social formations have been characterized by a combination of economic modes of production. We conventionally speak of these modes of production being structured into dominant and subordinate modes, so that we speak of whole periods in which a particular mode of production is dominant. Thus […]| Paul Cockshott's Blog
Heinz Dieterich 1.Three Cancers that destroy Humanity. The idea to organize 8,103,062,575 (billion) people with about 7000 spoken languages, 300 writing systems, 4000 “unique …| Paul Cockshott's Blog
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 p…| Paul Cockshott's Blog
Heinz Dieterich 26.2.2022 1. Ukraine: The Last Battle of the 20th Century When the Soviet Union fell in 1990-91, Washington decided to deliver the final coup de grace to its two main geopolitical r…| Paul Cockshott's Blog
After the Oligarchy: I’m talking to Paul Cockshott today. I’m just going to read his bio from a book How the World Works which I’m reading at the moment (which is very good): Paul…| Paul Cockshott's Blog
I have been sent two documents by the Soviet Cybernetician Glushkov which I am sharing here to make them generally available. The deal with the practical techniques that are needed to interactively…| Paul Cockshott's Blog
Facts For my non Scottish readers, a bit of background. Alex Salmond is a Scottish politician, former leader of the Scottish National Party and one time First Minister of Scotland. After the 2014 r…| Paul Cockshott's Blog
In some industries, steel, concrete and traditional brick making come to mind, the release of carbon has been inherent to the production process. Bricks in the UK were traditionally made by mixing …| Paul Cockshott's Blog
Aleksandr Buzgalin (Russian Social Forum) buzgalin@mail.ru Is Russia Waking Up? (The reasons behind the protest actions that began in Russia in January 2021, the social forces involved, and the pos…| Paul Cockshott's Blog
