Hiding millions of dead with trendlines Paul Cockshott 2023-10-19 | I respond to claims that I have greatly overestimated the number of excess deaths in Russia as a result of capitalist restoration
1905 to 1909 - Einstein and Lenin take on Mach Paul Cockshott 2023-10-06 | How, in their different ways, Einstein and Lenin demolished the intellectual basis of the Austrian philosopher Mach.Bächtold summarises Mach’s view on atoms as: “Mach’s view on atoms canbe described as consisting of five main ideas: (a) atoms do not exist in themselves, (b)the notion of atom is only a thought-symbol for a complex of sensations, (c) atomism isan unfruitful hypothesis, (d) atomism is an artificial hypothesis, and (e) atomism is anunjustified hypothesis.”By the mid 20th century the Machist objection to the idea of atoms just seemed absurdand obscene. Hiroshima was not destroyed by a ‘complex of sensations’
USSR versus the Empire and Commonwealth Paul Cockshott 2023-09-27 | Backing up the evidence I produced in last week's video to show that even adjusting for population and initial development level, the performance of the Soviet economy was far better than that of the British Empire and British Commonwealth.
Sabine strays into deep water Paul Cockshott 2023-09-16 | I don't normally criticise other YouTube presenters, but since Sabine Hossenfelder is generally a good scientific education resource, I felt I had to point out the weaknesses of her foray into political economy.
Materialism time and infinity Paul Cockshott 2023-09-14 | Seminar with Katarina Kolozova of the School for Materialist Research.schoolofmaterialistresearch.orgOriginal on the SMR channel youtube.com/@UCsVGCswNTPYp32-9FF85LjA
Once more on unequal exchange Paul Cockshott 2023-07-25 | Video in response to a criticism of earlier videos that has just been published in Cosmonaut magazine.cosmonautmag.com/2023/07/in-defense-of-unequal-exchange-critique-of-paul-cockshotts-first-worldist-ignorance/?fbclid=IwAR3v_1w3oM9jbSfYr9rMnVtLZx9T-Y71lg8PKBmJJRIlIkQZBCNT7jbFjj8
The rate of profit over time Paul Cockshott 2023-07-22 | Second video in sequence about how Marx's theory of the rate of profit stacked up against the economic history of 19th century Britain.
The determination of the rate of profit Paul Cockshott 2023-07-19 | First of two talks summarising a paper I have coming out in the latest version of Research in Political Economy
The right to self determination and the current war Paul Cockshott 2023-06-29 | Examines why socialists support the right to self determination and how this relates to the current war between Russia and Ukraine. The roots of the conflict however lie in a mistaken nationalities policy pursued by the USSR which eventually proved fatal.
Monarchist Revanche Paul Cockshott 2023-05-20 | Britain is going backwards, with a reinforcement of Royal power and wealth.
History and digital coins Paul Cockshott 2023-05-01 | What will central bank digital coins mean for the economy and the balance of forces within the propertied classes?
Paul Cockshott talks Technology Paul Cockshott 2023-04-07 | Interview with Alexander Douglas of St Andrews
The World Crisis Paul Cockshott 2023-03-29 | In the NATO countries and Australia, we should oppose the war preparations led by the US and UK.Their objective is to maintain the obsolete Western system of world domination. This is objectively reactionary, in the sense that it attempts to return to an economic order that is irretrievably lost.
The Contradictions Of Capital Mobility Paul Cockshott 2023-03-15 | What would happen if capital really was as mobile as orthodox economics thinks it should be.
Entropy and Industry Paul Cockshott 2023-03-04 | 2nd lecture that I gave last year to the School of Materialist Research
Information Entropy and Capitalist Mass Production Paul Cockshott 2023-02-26 | Video lecture for the School of Materialist Research last yearalso on youtube.com/watch?v=qX1tkQHdGsA&t=21s
Paul Cockshott on the cultural revolution - interview on the Sublation channel Paul Cockshott 2023-02-22 | Original here youtube.com/watch?v=EAW3QuDy3TU
Inflation: what Marx said about it in Wages prices and profit Paul Cockshott 2023-02-13 | Here is a link to the source of the java code used to run the simulation.https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aqacxc2j0p9Zk71yQWlNXCXzBRAehQ?e=OUUM6BHere is a link to the slidesdocs.google.com/presentation/d/1XLljqdMNLj0omheXxIvDPO1DSGFmtc5DpLVJh46GdKY/edit?usp=sharing
Anti Subjetivismo Conversatorio c Paul Cockshott Anti Subjectivism Conversation w P Cockshott Paul Cockshott 2023-01-26 | Talk defending materialism against subjectivism given as an interview with comrades from Centro de Estudios Critica y Ciencia.Intro is in Spanish, my talk is in English.
British Exploitation of India Paul Cockshott 2023-01-12 | A review of Utsa Patnaik’s account of how the exploitation occurred and the scale of the exploitation.
Response to Carrera Paul Cockshott 2022-12-31 | He is author of ‘Conocer el capital hoy’, and has apparently a significant following in the Spanish reading Marxist public.I have heard him described as a modern Bernstein but that, as I say, is a second hand account.The reason I am doing this short video is because his followers have been attacking the CibCom comrades with claims that he, Carrera, had refuted the proposals of myself and Allin Cottrell.
Planning and climate change Paul Cockshott 2022-12-20 | Talk given by Hardin and Zachariah at the Marx 2022 conference in Sweden on why socialist planning is the only feasible response to the climate change challenge.
Abstraction, value and energy Paul Cockshott 2022-12-03 | Video on the power of abstraction to discover hidden relationships. Du Chatelet and Marx as examples.by patreon.com/williamCockshott
Abolish commodities or abolish value Paul Cockshott 2022-11-27 | This video addresses persistent misunderstandings about the relationship between value and exchange value.
Defining terms Paul Cockshott 2022-11-25 | What do the terms socialist and communist mean?How are communists different from socialists in their aims?by patreon.com/williamCockshottAlso see my new video on the Sublation channel youtube.com/watch?v=EAW3QuDy3TU
Was Marx right about profits Paul Cockshott 2022-11-07 | A summary of Marx's theory of the rate of profit and how it compared to what happened in the late 19th century.
Critique of Mises: A video by Tomas Härdin Paul Cockshott 2022-11-04 | Tomas is doing great work on the algorithmics of socialist calculation. Here he takes down Mises.Shared with his permission.He originally loaded it as youtu.be/0f-MWeJCsRs
Bitcoin is no answer Paul Cockshott 2022-10-31 | A short video looking into the dire effects that would ensue were bitcoin to become our standard money.
New Book on Planning Paul Cockshott 2022-10-26 | This is the book that I have been working on with Allin Cottrell and Philipp Dapprich. Work for this provided the foundation for a couple of videos, but there is a lot more in the book.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BKHZMVQC
Critique of the Patnaiks book Paul Cockshott 2022-09-23 | Video critiquing the Patnaiks' book.Blog:paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2018/12/18/a-critique-of-chapter-2-of-the-patnaiks-theory-of-imperialismSlides docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zIvrLp9dzdCJnOWKJZ0TKVFfoacrQW5jxPI2VX44MNA/edit?usp=sharing
Political economy of Gay and Lesbian households Paul Cockshott 2022-09-03 | The final video in the series. Again draws on data in my paper: Cockshott, Paul. "Class, Demography, and Gay Politics in the West." World Review of Political Economy 11.1 (2020): 95-114
Gender gaps, liberalism versus socialism Paul Cockshott 2022-08-31 | Second video in my series on the political economy issues behind gender politics.This draws on material in Chapter 5 of How the World Works.
Economics and the rainbow movement (1) Paul Cockshott 2022-08-30 | First in a series of videos on the economics behind the rainbow flag movement.This draws on material I used in an article published in a Chinese Academy of Social Sciences edited journal. The analysis was too controversial for UK or US left journals to accept.Cockshott, Paul. "Class, Demography, and Gay Politics in the West." World Review of Political Economy 11.1 (2020): 95-114
Purchasing Power and Class Polarization Paul Cockshott 2022-07-31 | "The cost of living crisis from the standpoint of a labour theory of capitalism. For more details, see Farjoun et al., How Labor Powers the Global Economy: A Labor Theory of Capitalism, Springer 2022."
69 years of the Bolivian Young Communists Paul Cockshott 2022-07-04 | Short anniversary video with music.
Maos dialectics applied to modern capitalism Paul Cockshott 2022-05-16 | Continuation of my talks on dialectics, now looking at how Mao's analysis of the particularity of contradiction applies to the crises of late capitalism.Full lecture notes here https://1drv.ms/b/s!Aqacxc2j0p9ZkoggLOSwOEKN_Egj6Q?e=MdGSTh
Mao quotes Lenin on Dialectics Paul Cockshott 2022-05-10 | What are we to make of the 5 points of dialectics that Mao quotes from Lenin?How should we understand this?Lecture notes for series are here: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HOpHe0pTDZePDQTCgOxdN_Ub7kEGO3By4EkqawIlmV8/edit?usp=sharing
Mao on internal causes Paul Cockshott 2022-05-03 | What did Mao mean when he used the term contradiction, why was he concerned about internal versus external causes of development?Online lecture notes here : docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HOpHe0pTDZePDQTCgOxdN_Ub7kEGO3By4EkqawIlmV8/edit?usp=sharing
Stalin on dialectics, with some Engels Paul Cockshott 2022-04-30 | Looks at Stalin's first 3 principles of dialectical materialism.
Introduction : Mechanical vs Dialectical Materialism Paul Cockshott 2022-04-29 | This is the first of at least 3 videos I will be doing on dialectical materialism.Online notes here : docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HOpHe0pTDZePDQTCgOxdN_Ub7kEGO3By4EkqawIlmV8/edit?usp=sharing
Workers Control Paul Cockshott 2022-04-16 | Interview with After the Oligarchy about what Workers' Control means
Materialism and subjects Paul Cockshott 2022-03-31 | This is a recording of one of the lectures I gave last year to the School of Materialist Research.I will be giving another course of lectures with them this summer.The first few moments are involved with me asking participants what I should talk about the lecture starts 1:58 into the video.
Second video by Hardin with questions from me Paul Cockshott 2022-03-23 | In this video Tomas gets into more detail of how to use linear programmes with mixed integer methods to solve large plans with billions of production techniques.
Planning cybernetics and socialism Paul Cockshott 2022-03-17 | I interview Tomas Hardin after his talk on planning cybernetics and socialism.
What was money and what was not Paul Cockshott 2022-03-16 | I explain the contrasting monetary theories of Ricardo and Marx and compare them with the historical evidence.Second in my series on money.Online notes : docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H5o0XTLXRFQ7k0kcHXEJjykiVcvKxmH8vb0TkcJb7E0/edit?usp=sharing
What Is Money ? Part I Money and Empire Paul Cockshott 2022-03-04 | This explains how money is a social relation, specifically a power relation.
Facundo interview - apart from introduction interview is in English Paul Cockshott 2022-02-08 | I was interviewed by Facundo Guadagno a week or so ago. He has agreed to let me co-host the resulting video.
Hegel, Newton and Menshevizing Idealism Paul Cockshott 2022-02-02 | A defence of Newton from the Hegel inspired attacks of the Menshevizing Idealists.I know that is soviet jargon, but in this case it denotes a real problem, which still exists in left theory.For background reading consult onwego.info/Menshevizing%20Idealism/MI.pdf
