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Author Archives: Gavin Mendel-Gleason
Interview: Paul Cockshott on Econophysics and Socialism
Paul Cockshott is a Scottish computer scientist and a reader at the University of Glasgow. His major areas of work include array compilers, econophysics and the physical foundations of computability. He has written a number of books including Towards a … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
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The Legend of US Manufacturing Decline
It is a well known fact that the US is suffering from high unemployment and under-employment. This fact creates a host of social problems: it exacerbates poverty, increases inequality, weakens workers’ bargaining hand when looking for jobs and generates social … Continue reading
Review: A Very British Coup
A socialist Labour Party government has finally come to power in Britain. Harry Perkins, a third generation communist, wins the position of Prime Minister. He and his cabinet immediately embark on a programme to break up media monopolies, nationalise industry, … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural reviews, Culture
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Everything You Know About Decentralisation is Wrong
Decentralisation has become a fashionable notion in modern politics, finding common expression in both the libertarian left and the conservative right. It seems that Greenpeace, local-food advocates , anarchists and even Tories are united in the belief that decentralisation is … Continue reading
Posted in Critique of the Left, Politics
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Notes on Left-Unity
Currently there is a quite a lot of reflection along the left about how we are going to recompose as a political force. The idea that this is necessary is widely shared, since it’s absolutely absurdly obvious that despite a … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
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Why I joined the ULA
I recently joined the United Left Alliance and shortly after I received a number of questions from people about why I would bother. One person asked me why I thought that it would have any chance of success given the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
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Can Communists Learn to Fly – Book Review: The Tailor of Ulm
Lucio Magri’s The Tailor of Ulm is a fascinating account of the history of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). He begins his account with an anecdote regarding the tailor of Ulm. Ingrao, who had already fully explained his reasons for … Continue reading
Posted in History, Proletarian politics
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Colonising Venus
James: On the face of it colonising Venus appears ridiculous. With temperatures of over 500 degrees celsius and atmospheric pressure 90 times that of earth how is it even possible to get started on a colonisation mission? Gavin: All target … Continue reading
“Did you try turning it off and then on again?”
Diagnosing where things have gone wrong and what we can do about it As we survey the current state of affairs, it’s hard not to get somewhat demoralised. Despite a massive market failure, a brief flurry of rhetoric about the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Proletarian politics
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Planning and its complexities
The system of planning in the Soviet Union was unique in both its scope and complexity and it would be no exaggeration to call it a grand experiment, one which has given us an entirely unusual data point in the … Continue reading
Changing the mode of production
The idea of a mode of production has its genesis amongst the political-economy theorists of the 19th century, a subject which was attracting so much interest was capitalism. Capitalism – quite a new system – represented a sharp change from … Continue reading
Race and Class
The staunchest and most consistent opponents of systemic racism are situated on the left, and a great many of them have been explicitly socialists. Socialists were some of the first to seriously champion the causes of anti-racism as it fits … Continue reading
Rethinking Nuclear Power
As we face the twin perils of an energy crisis arising from the ever increasing cost of oil extraction and the serious threat of climate change, nuclear power has again come back onto the agenda. When the Nuclear Age first … Continue reading
Posted in Sci-tech
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Which way the Economic Revolution?
All socialists hold that capitalism is not the best of all possible worlds in terms of organising production and consumption when viewed from the position of the vast majority of society. However, socialists have often been pretty vague about what … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, Proletarian politics
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