From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Aug 30 2008 - 14:42:14 EDT
I think that to make progress here one has to work with some sort of probabalistic process algebra. I have not done any work on these algebras since the early 90s, but since then I believe that one LOTOS has become quite well accepted. EWssentially we have linked markov processes and have to conceptualise the linkages between them and how these affect transition probabilities or fluxes. Paul Cockshott Dept of Computing Science University of Glasgow +44 141 330 1629 www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/ -----Original Message----- From: ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu on behalf of Dave Zachariah Sent: Fri 8/29/2008 2:18 PM To: Outline on Political Economy mailing list Subject: Re: [OPE] Question to Marxologists: Mode of production Jerry wrote: So, I do't think > it's the case that a given configuration of the forces of production are > compatible with more than one mode of production. It's, of course, > the case that as a new mode emerges it "inherits" the forces of production > of the previous mode but - from the moment of its birth - the new relations > of production alter the shape and characteristics of the forces of > production. > I think this statement is really vacuous. Nothing of your answer to Paul contradicts his example that a configuration of forces of production is compatible with more than one mode of production. Industrial production in capitalism and Soviet-socialism is another a recent example. It is a different matter of the transition probabilities that each mode of production has between configurations of forces of production. The Soviet-type mode of production was incapable of going from industrial production to large-scale information production and processing. //Dave Z _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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