Tuesday, May 20th at 3:00 PM EST/8:00 PM BST
Join known Marxist Computer Scientist Paul Cockshott on an AMA (Ask Me Anything) here at leftypol.org
Post your questions on the forthcoming AMA thread this Tuesday!
Cya there!
>>2273863Mr. Cock do you intend value production to be maintained indefinitely?
Mr. Cock what is your opinion on parecon (participatory economics) and the notion of so-called "decentralized planning"?
>>2273883Yes.
Also, please, one question per user. Don't spam.
>>2273917Will the questions above
>>2273890 >>2273878 >>2273873 >>2273872 >>2273870 be approved? They were submitted before being made aware of the plea for one question per user.
>>2273937dick wolff shouted us out, yugopnik did an AMA here, now dickblast
we can't stop winning
>>2273933>>2273935He in specific said his uni network blocked it at first didn't he?
He probably isn't wrong IB UI is usually ugly colors that burn the eyes no matter what theme you use.
>>2274511sure but everyone doing the critique is nonsense, some will have to try and tinker something as well.
That does not prevent others to then critique that tinkering.
Or do you think simply critiquing is going to bring about socialism?
>>2274584ANon. In all those years you simply didn't think to do it yourself?
Why are ML's like this? lmao.
>>2274730>Why do you blatantly ignore the importance of the class struggle?Nonsense, Cockshott does class analysis in the context of the fall of the USSR, in the context of the history of the USA's economy, and in the context of the transition between slave economy and feudalism.
https://youtu.be/UoSe66oOKsw?feature=shared&t=1262 Here's his diagram of different forms of agriculture in Roman slave economy, with the transition between forms being caused by class dynamics.
>>2274730Leftists do not deserve anything
How many people with Cockshotts understanding of math and economics do you know who are interested in proposing socialist ways of doing economics? You are just a wrecker
>>2274929Larp with an armalite and then suck anglo cock
That is communism
No need for computational mathematics lf fascist cockshott
>>2274730This
Who tf cares what some boomer yelling at clouds thinks?
>>2274973Give a framework for socialist planning, complete with equations and algorithms, then we talk, you moron.
Humanities studies is a disease. Everyone must be forced into STEM
>>2274979Communism is about communism.
Not obsessing over sodomy.
>>2275146Good news: The anon you are talking to doesn't have the power to do that
Bad news: The bourgeoisie are already doing it through "incentive structures"
>>2274973Come on anon, get a goddamn grip of yourself. I don't agree with his takes regarding social issues like gay and trans rights; but he still has a fascinating, relevant, and plausible enough vision of a post-capitalist society that I'm willing to listen to him and ask what he thinks about that.
And that's what's most relevant to me since my ultimate goal that I see as emancipatory for all minorities, the LGBTQ+ community included, is the transition of society into a socialist mode of production that brings about communism.
>>2275294this
i'm some freak homogay furry with a lot of trans friends but the issue is picking your battles where they are most important.
I don't think cockshott is going to advocate splitting a movement over this shit and he's not going to rat LGBTQ+ to the cops, so it's worth listening.
>>2274227He organized people against Thatcher's poll tax (people refused to pay and the policy was abandoned) together with some other guy who had been to prison just for financing* a lefty party.
*through robberies
>>2275294So much criticism you can aim at some academic grifter just trying to sell his books on mangling marxism and you guys choose to focus on his (admittedly idiotic) personal opinions on queer people?
>>2275306>splitting a movementCockshott is not part of any movement, lol.
>>2275146they will have materialist philosophy classes and marxist political theory.
But STEM is the core. Marx would agree as Marx would hold Newton and Darwin higher than any 'philosophr'
>>2274881>>2275158found more:
>https://archive.ph/rWKhm>Paul Cockshott: An Intellectual for Imbeciles>Premise 1: Trans people are overwhelmingly workers (exploited above the average rate, which will be discussed later)>Premise 2: Communists fight for the workers>Conclusion: Communists fight with/for trans people(We could attach all sorts of conditions to the conclusion, such as not being an informant, but these would be conditions applicable to anyone.)
>Nowhere in this argument does a need arise for philosophizing about sex or gender. >Cockshott is unwilling to turn class analysis inwards, that is, examine how is own labor aristocratic nature as a first world academic limits his outlook and permeates his writing with all manner of petty-bourgeois prejudices.>There is a great deal of overlap in the US between the anti-LGBT “communists” and the anti-BLM and anti-immigrant “communists”. >Nobody is questioning anti-pedophilia laws that would encompass “priests buggering novices”, but Paul seems to be implying a link between homosexuality and pedophilia that has zero supporting evidence and is in fact believed solely by the most rabid bourgeois spokespeople.>Paul is also totally hypocritical in his argument by association, as “gender critical” feminists frequently cavort with open fascists and do not hesitate to take lucrative professorships or government funds. In fact, Paul positively refers to an AIDS denier in [Lobby], reasonably making him a quack by association!It's links to google doc:
https://archive.ph/60WtJ> Cockshott, like any rogue intellectual, is forced to dance around the facts and resort to metaphor and various non-arguments. I will take him point by point, in the works I could find references to LGBT people. This Google Doc [Sourced as Google doc]It's from mr cock himself as he discovers what pink capitalism is and the memes of it when he was kicked out of a ML facebook group
>>2276262Wait, you're telling me that Paul Cockshott isn't from North Korea? This changes everything, my god…..
What will I do with the theory of Cyberjuche now?
>>2276285Cyberjuche already exists. Do you think the guys pushing the trains
aren't cyborgs?
>>2276403you'll probably want to answer questions in the correct thread
>>2276372 (assuming this actually is Paul and not someone pretending)
>>2276425there importing the posts, maybe, i think.
at this point just marge the two threads
>>2276425they should lock and/or hide this thread
>>2276431here:
>>2276372 Unique IPs: 53