Will be ready shortly, ask either about books or secondarily about videos.
Preference given to books in reverse order, so Defending Materialism, How the World Works, Economic Planning in time of Climate Crisis, Computation and its Limits, Towards a New Socialism etc
52 posts and 9 image replies omitted.Very honored to speak with you, Professor Cockshott.
Could you please make a blogpost or video on what you think about Maoism
as a contemporary international communist movement, developing since your youth? In particular I'm very curious about what your assessment is about:
1. western European 'Mao spontaneity' for example Gauche Proletarienne, COBI(?)
2. the controversial history of PCP-SL in Peru and CPN (Maoist) in Nepal
3. the reconstituted MLM movements of CPI (Maoist) in India and CPP in the Philippines, who, after reorganizing following the critical analysis of various mistakes made by their Peruvian and Nepalese contemporaries, have seemed to develop MLM onward beyond the 2000s and have shown to be able to maintain protracted people's wars in both countries to this day. They also publish advanced theoretical works. Have you read On the Maoist Party by Ajith of CPI (Maoist) for example?
Does Marxism-Leninism-Maoism make sense as a "rupture" with Marxism-Leninism, integrating a refocused importance on mass line, criticism-self-criticism, continuous / cultural revolution even under socialism, recognition of the ability of a new bourgeoisie to reemerge within the party, the critique of the monolithic party, etc.?
And would you consider yourself a (heterodox) Maoist still (in reference to COBI)?
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DOCTOR my apologies.
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Professor Cockshott would you please let me do some minor editing work on your videos and send them back to you for upload? I ask for nothing in return and you already have my email address ( we conversed on Skype briefly once)
Dear Mr. Cockshott,
I've been intrigued with your writings for a while, and I am very interested with navigating putting your theories into practice.
On your "new socialism", which has come to be known as cybercommunism, I wish to understand how such a society would come about. My theory is that it would have to come about through existing means produced under capitalism, as a sort of "social network". Social networking has provided a means of making connections, and this website is certainly no exception. However, I believe that it would need to be transactional, with each member contributing to its development. We would need to build on what has come before in order to create a digital platform for a socialist movement. What is your take on this idea?
Secondly, I am also interested in cybercommunism as a means of nation-building. In our digital age, the internet has provided various ways of contributing to causes (i.e. crowdfunding). I believe that this could be an effective strategy for developing nations, autonomous zones seeking independence from their parent nation, or nations that have yet to exist. Though this largely exists in the form of taxes, could we see a crowdfunded nation come to fruition through your proposed digital society?
Lastly, I have recently come across a more right-wing influenced idea of a network-based society, known more commonly as the "network state". The idea is a decentralized economy based on cryptocurrency in which people can create based their ideas without interference from a state. One such movement is called "Praxis", who seek to build their own nation with the premise of "saving Western civilization", building a new "great city" and eventually creating a new space race. I'm curious where cybercommunism and cybercapitalism differ? Beyond planned economy vs laissez-faire, both seem dependent on the need for mutual aid.
Thanks for your time!
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>Dr. Cockshott, Is it possible to do labor time calculation with non-physical commodities, like software which is sold as a subscription service? Clearly necessary labor goes into creating it, maintaining it, and updating it, but since it is not sold as a commodity unit, like a hard disc, but is given as a subscribed service, a complication emerges.
You have to distinguish the actual process of production from the commercial model that it is operated under. Software, like books, audio etc requires considerable labour to initially produce, but can be distributed easily. So the issue is how society supports those workers doing the initial work of creating something which can later be copied. Its final cost to the consumer should be no more than the cost of copying.
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