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[–] KalergiPlanner@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

He's also a homophobe:

https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/class-and-the-lgtb-lobby/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.1.0095

He's also against dialectical materialism, as if all socialists from Engels to Mao to the Marxists of the modern day have missed something this fundamental:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhEbKt3hFRs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiejAjkWyaE

Due to the latter point, I find it hard to consider him a Marxist, this is absolute revisionism. Issues with philosophy lead to issues with ideology, this is a pattern you will notice with the revisionists of the past.

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He also repeatedly calls sex workers "wh___s" in his writings. And argues that Western workers are exploited to a higher rate than those in the global South.

[–] KalergiPlanner@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's also against the theory of unequal exchange. He doesn't just have one or two mistakes, he consistently makes errors; there's a big difference. Bravo to Cockshott for inventing his own Marxist deviation that nobody follows.

Also, what's the source for the latter?

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That the rate of exploitation is higher in the West? That's his argument against unequal exchange, it was some YT video but I can't watch YT right now, away from home.

[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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