Paul Cockshott

I really enjoyed Towards A New Socialism. Your proposals there are grounded in a lot of really compelling political critique, especially the account of social democracy at the beginning which I think is extremely valuable.

Prof. Cockshott,

I'm a huge fan of your work--I recently had the opportunity to read Towards a New Socialism and found it an eye opening experience. However, I still fall more within the realm of being a market socialist (I find David Schweickart's 'Economic Democracy' theory quite convincing and feasible). I understand that you consider such a system to be a desirable transitional stage towards your theory of cybernetic planning.

Anyway, the reason I'm writing is because I just read a critique of your work by Geoffrey M. Hodgson and started a thread about it. I was wondering if you have any interest in participating in the discussion? http://www.revleft.com/vb/economic-p...773/index.html


All the best!

Hello there comrade, please join the free software group we have here, because as you probably already know free software is based upon communist principles.

You might be interested in this mathematics group:

http://www.revleft.com/vb/group.php?groupid=79

In there, I have an old thread on the so-called "Fundamental Marxian Theorem."

I'm back (for now).

I'm still trying to find that obscure post on RevLeft about the four functions of the modern state (defense from external attack is one "non-class" function, can't remember the other two listed). I merely hinted at them here, where a comrade questioned the Marxist definition of "the state":

http://www.revleft.com/vb/long-ass-p...033/index.html

Thanks, if you would like my take on how the capitalist economy works, have a look at the new book as well,.

I am a very big fan of your book Towards A New Socialism; I have recommended many to read it.

Thanks Organ, other ones have been in the philosophy pages

I have only seen your posts on the naxalites thread, and they were nice.