Dr Paul Cockshott is a computer scientist and multidisciplinary economist working through Marxism and scientific socialism. Dr Cockshott earned a PhD in Computer Science from Edinburgh University. Named on fifty-two patents, his research covers political economy, robotics, computer parallelism, 3D TV, foundations of computability, and data compression. He is the author of numerous books, including How the World Works, Towards a New Socialism and Defending Materialism. In this episode, we discuss the history of materialism, whether dialectical or mechanical materialism is correct, what type of materialist Marx was, scientific socialism, centralised planning, computational economics and whether markets without capitalism are possible.
You can find more of Dr Cockshott's work at https://www.youtube.com/@paulcockshott8733, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eDREwZMAAAAJ&hl=en and https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
Defending Materialism: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/defending-materialism-9781350447349/
Towards a New Socialism: https://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf
Watch the video version here.
RSam Podcast #75
---------------------------------------
Please consider financially supporting my work (ONLY if you have the means).
Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com
---------------------------------------
{Podcast}
SFP: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rahul-samaranayake
Website: https://ra
Popular Podcasts
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Therapy Gecko
An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.