Paul Cockshott

[Paul Cockshott @PCockshott]

@GillianLazarus I think the aversion to killing babies is pretty universal.

[Paul Cockshott @PCockshott]

Slavery has historically been an impediment to industry. When you pay no wages it is not worth introducing labour saving machines.

Thousands of years of slavery never produced industrial society. Water power and steam power drove industrialization.

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

Such ignorance, @MichaelRosenYes

Caribbean sugar did not generate vast wealth for Britain nor did it drive industrialisation

As I had to explain to KehindeAndrews, sugar amounted to 2.5% of net British national income

Coal, sheep farming, the woolen industry, and iron were far more valuable

In 1770, the peak year for sugar, sugar only accounted for 3% of capital formation. If sugar was such a hot commodity it would have accounted for a FAR higher %.

In fact, Scottish & Irish flax and linen were much more of a revenue generator for the British economy than sugar

The reality is that the contribution of sugar to the British economy was the same as for barley and hops - and I don't recall anyone saying that beer was fundamental for the Industrial Revolution.

My debate on @triggerpod

[Paul Cockshott @PCockshott]

@RafHM @MichaelRosenYes Also sugar was a luxury and you can not industrialised by expanding production of luxuries. You need expanded production of machinery and energy.

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@GrunwaldSpier Fair point. The NSDAP has specific German traits, socialist demogogy combined with a plan to conquer Poland and Russia. Likud has no claim to socialism and is after different lands to conquer.

[Jocelyn Hurndall @jocelynhurndall]

@__jacker__ Far from being a “human shield” my son was acutely aware of dangers posed by Israel’s loose rules of engagement. Wearing a fluorescent jacket, saw children being targeted by an IDF sniper, handed over his camera and rescued two children. He was shot in the head for his humanity.

[Paul Cockshott @PCockshott]

I see that the Israel lobby lost badly in the American election. Whether this is enough to stop the resumption of aggression against Iran seems doubtful whatever the Vice President says.

[Paul Cockshott @PCockshott]

@thepeacepoet99 When you have F15s you don't have to do that. The solution is obviously to give the Palestinians fighter bombers too.

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@K_Niemietz If is unclear how you build up industry by importing a. Luxury good like sugar. It would be more plausible to say coal mines and ironworks industrialised the UK.

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@ProfDBernstein There is no carnage going on in China.

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@archer_rs Palestinians have a good sense of their history, why should we believe you not them?

[Paul Cockshott @PCockshott]

@RayMegah Pretty clear who has lost the exchange

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@Stevnage75328 @KatieSaysWhat @enkypanky @BraddockBessie Thomas Jefferson instructed George Rogers Clark to retaliate against tribes that had "massacred frontier inhabitants without provocation," and explicitly promised to confiscate the land of these tribes and distribute it to volunteers as reward. Same story.

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@Marikacobbold @BraddockBessie The Israeli state claims all of Palestine as it's territory. That is the country they stole. It has been step by step expropriation on their part. Now they are starting to steal South Lebanon.

[Paul Cockshott @PCockshott]

@MLode33640 @DaveBoro1770 @doctor_rahmeh @gmcuk @the_mpts What profession shoots children?

[Paul Cockshott @PCockshott]

@Miffed456 @adam_louis52328 I have a big number of peer review publications defending Marxism. Look them up on Google

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@skedeschi Fine they are allowed to try that, but would need a majority to do it, at which point they would have a mandate

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@Marikacobbold @BraddockBessie They are stealing territory as we speak. Read the ICJ judgement on the status of the West Bank.

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@SeirdNavNnac @NicholasTyrone No The CPC is a Marxist party, Mussolini explicitly abandoned Marxism

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@RayMegah Ok then engage with the substance of what Jane said about colonialism, you have been doing nothing but printing insults