Paul Cockshott

Nice to see reason on these boards.

I'm sad to hear about the French publisher - and a little surprised, considering that France seems to be moving left these days (Sarkozy even expressed support for the Tobin Tax the other day; Sarkozy of all people).

Perhaps you will be able to publish the French version at a later time. Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to "Classical Econophysics".

There's also this Muscovite comrade sanpal who equates the Soviet economic system with Duhring's "socialitarianism":

http://www.revleft.com/vb/state-capi...08/index3.html
http://www.revleft.com/vb/socialist-...580/index.html

Perhaps at some point we can debate on the transition to labour credits (the stages in your Czech preface vs. labour credits in certain sectors of the global economy co-existing with the monetary transition).

Thanks for that much-needed boost to the RevMarx group!

Very cool to have you on the site.

We did some work on an updated version to be published in French last year, but the French publisher withdrew so it never came out. We have been too busy with a book on capitalist economics 'Classical Econophysics' to write an entirely new book on socialist economics.

I believe you are the very first person with actual published works to have joined Revleft - at least, as far as we know.

Posting a link to "Towards a New Socialism" is, at least for me, standard practice every time the economic calculation argument is mentioned. Any chance you and Allin Cottrell might be persuaded to write an updated version, or perhaps even a whole new book on the topic of socialist economics?