William Paul Cockshott, born in 1952, is a Scottish academic working in computer science and Marxist economics at the University of Glasgow. Since 1993 he has authored multiple works in the tradition of scientific socialism, most notably Towards a New Socialism and How the World Works, advocating a moneyless economy organized through computer-aided economic planning. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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William Paul Cockshott (born 16 March 1952) is a Scottish academic in the fields of computer science and Marxist economics.
Practices Studied: Socialism, Article text
He proposes a moneyless socialist economy, akin to Karl Marx's description of a socialist society in Critique of the Gotha Programme, realized by today's computer technology:
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Cockshott advocates for a moneyless economy and the use of computers to aid a planned economy.
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