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Paul Cockshott

@PaulCockshott

Economist and communist scientist.

Katılım Kasım 2013
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Paul Cockshott
Paul Cockshott@PaulCockshott·
@NicolasDVillar1 @ianpaulwright Interpellate in French means an action of police detention. That is Althussers explicit example. Subject is a category of feudal and later French bourgeois law. The bourgeois form arises from commodity relations not police action.
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Nicolas D Villarreal
Nicolas D Villarreal@NicolasDVillar1·
@PaulCockshott @ianpaulwright Your notion that by interpellation Althusser simply means "arresting" per his example of this police, is incompatible with Althusser from the very beginning saying "ideology interpellates us as subject" and then clarifying that ideology is what constitutes us as subjects.
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Paul Cockshott
Paul Cockshott@PaulCockshott·
@NicolasDVillar1 @ianpaulwright I had Brewster himself trying to explain it to our group back in 71 and did the obligatory reading of Saussure, but we were young and naive then not having read Pashukanis so I had no basis to criticise it from.
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Nicolas D Villarreal
Nicolas D Villarreal@NicolasDVillar1·
@ianpaulwright @PaulCockshott Your misunderstanding of the althusserian notion of the subject isn't because of translation, its because you never bothered to understand structuralism and the idea of the semiotic or semantic field which is the foundation for everything Althusser and Lacan say wrt the subject.
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Paul Cockshott@PaulCockshott·
@BladeoftheS The 60 comes from mesopotamia not Egypt the mesopotamian number system alternated base 10 and base 60.
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BladeoftheSun
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS·
The Ancient Egyptians invented it before any other civilisation really existed. The Ancient Greek, Romans and Arabic cultures all decided to simply copy it rather than change it. If it had been more modern and not 5,500 years old we probably would have had other variations.
Romy@Romy_Holland

it’s weird that every culture uses the same timekeeping. i know there have been other calendar systems, but everyone settled on 24 hour days and 60 minute hours and 60 second minutes. these are weird numbers! why didn’t anyone implement metric timekeeping?

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Omar Montoya Suárez
Omar Montoya Suárez@OmarMontoyaSua1·
El objetivo era desviar la atención de la fábrica (donde se produce el valor y ocurre la explotación) hacia el mercado (donde los individuos parecen "libres e iguales" al elegir productos). 4/12
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Paul Cockshott@PaulCockshott·
@die_rizzen But Marx was wrong to make it an interior psychological property of humans. Architects are a result of the social division of labour and need tools like rulers and compasses.
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Die Rizzenschaftslehre
Die Rizzenschaftslehre@die_rizzen·
@PaulCockshott Exterior plans are are still something recognizable and communicable. Peopel following orders they dont understand properly is bee-like behavior.
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Die Rizzenschaftslehre@die_rizzen·
@cabalaofpegasus No. Animals dont have artistic sensibilities and techniques are biologically determined. Now, there is purpose in what animals do, i am a teleologist here. But its not properly conscious/self-conscious.
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Paul Cockshott@PaulCockshott·
@die_rizzen No it is very relevant. Bricklayers do not raise the building in their imagination and architects don't raise it. What is human is the ability to draw and follow exterior plans. Bees don't draw. The only plans they transmit are by dance.
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sarah@sahouraxo·
Israel killed every single child in this photo in South Lebanon within less than 30 days. They were not combatants. They were children.
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Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸
Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸@jacksonhinkle·
US approves $108M arms sale to Ukraine. The State Department confirmed the sale of the HAWK air defense maintenance equipment.
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Tyrant-Ē@TyranoFiccional·
@PaulCockshott @OmarMontoyaSua1 Creo que ese tema ya estaba zanjado Marx afirma explícitamente que "el concepto económico de valor no ocurre entre los antiguos"; para ellos, el valor era una categoría puramente legal contra el fraude, no una categoría económica que regulara la producción.
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Omar Montoya Suárez
Omar Montoya Suárez@OmarMontoyaSua1·
Su crítica es "válida" si nos quedamos en la superficie, pero se vuelve problemática cuando analizamos la especificidad histórica del capitalismo. Aunque el intercambio exista hace milenios, el Valor (como categoría reguladora) es exclusivo del modo de producción capitalista. 1/8
Paul Cockshott@PaulCockshott

@OmarMontoyaSua1 I think you are doing something all too common, equating value with the form of expression of value: exchange value. Even the latter is not specifically capitalist, existed in slave economy too.

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Paul Cockshott@PaulCockshott·
@OmarMontoyaSua1 In slavery exchange was a prerequisite to buy slaves on the market. Hence the highly developed money and trade in Roman times.
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Omar Montoya Suárez@OmarMontoyaSua1·
En la esclavitud, el intercambio es un accidente del excedente; en el capitalismo, el intercambio es la condición de existencia del trabajo mismo. 8/8
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Paul Cockshott@PaulCockshott·
@OmarMontoyaSua1 No. Past economies also economised on social Labour, read chapters on slave and feudal agriculture in my book How the World Works.
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Paul Cockshott@PaulCockshott·
@OmarMontoyaSua1 I think you are doing something all too common, equating value with the form of expression of value: exchange value. Even the latter is not specifically capitalist, existed in slave economy too.
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Omar Montoya Suárez
Omar Montoya Suárez@OmarMontoyaSua1·
El trabajo se convierte en creador de valor solo cuando los productores están organizados como productores de mercancías independientes que se relacionan a través del cambio. 3/4
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Omar Montoya Suárez
Omar Montoya Suárez@OmarMontoyaSua1·
El valor no es una teoría sobre cómo se fijan los precios (una tarea para ingenieros o contables), sino una teoría sobre la forma social del trabajo en el capitalismo. 1/4
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Ragged Trousered Philanderer
Ragged Trousered Philanderer@RaggedTP·
The Green party had a socialist/pro-Palestine stance. Polanski, a liberal Zionist Jew, infiltrated the party on a mission to destroy it, and the socialist/ anti-Zionist movement, from the inside. To turn it into an unelectable laughing stock. A strawman party, easily blown away.
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BladeoftheSun
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS·
Utilities can easily be Nationalised. Price cap them all and they will go bankrupt or become almost worthless. Then renationalise Energy, Water, Rail, Mail and Telecoms that were all built by the Government or with Public Funding anyway.
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Not that Elon.@Eggplant_Elon·
1/ Thought experiment doing the rounds in my head this morning. Burnham replaces Starmer. He walks into Number 10 with the Manchester accent and the real Labour framing. He announces the renationalisation of water, energy, rail, and grid. All of it. Funded by, well, vibes mostly. Here’s how the next twelve months actually play out. 👇🧵
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Paul Cockshott@PaulCockshott·
@Eggplant_Elon Thames water is functionally bankrupt could be taken over for almost nothing like Railtrack was by Blair. Other water firms similar.
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Paul Cockshott@PaulCockshott·
@Eggplant_Elon Under a single nationalised industry electricity was sold at average not marginal cost. Average cost is lower and relatively insensitive to gas price compared to marginal cost.
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Not that Elon.@Eggplant_Elon·
9/ Energy bills were supposed to fall under public ownership. They rise instead, because the wholesale gas market is profoundly indifferent to ideology, and the hedging desks that used to manage that exposure have been gutted during transition. Burnham announces a price cap below cost. The Treasury absorbs the difference, so the deficit projection goes vertical.
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Saul Staniforth
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth·
@Onmeed 1970s Britain owned its water, transport, mail, energy, millions of council houses and sat on a huge North Sea reserve. The national debt was £80bn. 2026 Britain has no assets & a national debt of £2.9tn. It wasn't socialism that did this. It was neoliberalism.
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