RE: [OPE] English and spanish texts of press conference on the crisisin Caracas on Wednesday

From: Paul Cockshott <wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Fri Oct 10 2008 - 11:22:44 EDT

Conferencia de Prensa/seminario

 

Caracas, 8.10.2008

11:00 hrs, Hotel Alba

 

 

 

La Crisis del Capitalismo y su Alternativa

 El Pueblo con la Ciencia construye el Socialismo del Siglo XXI

 

Convocan: Bloque Regional de Poder Popular (BRPP)-Scientists for a Socialist Political Economy (SSPE)-www.aporrea.org-Batallón Móvil Frente Revolucionario del Poder Popular (PSUV)-Editorial Horizonte-Victoria Popular

 

Orden de exposiciones

 

1. Allin Cottrell, Department Chair, Wake Forest University, USA

2. P. Cockshott, University of Glasgow, GB

3. Heinz Dieterich, México/FRG

4. Klaus Bartsch, FRG

5. Raimundo Franco, Cuba

6. Michel Bauwens, Belgium/Thailand (video)

7. Victor Martínez, Venezuela

8. Aristóbulo Isturiz, Venezuela

9. Jorge Rodríguez, Venezuela

 

Preguntas y respuestas

 

Himno del Socialismo del Siglo XXI

 

CVs

 

Klaus Bartsch

        
                  

Diplom-Ökonom Klaus Bartsch, Jahrgang 1959, Studium der Volkswirtschaftslehre und der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik, Hamburg, und Studium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Universität Bremen, ist seit 1991 beruflich auf dem Feld der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung tätig, von 1991-1995 im Rahmen des Instituts für Konjunktur- und Strukturforschung (IKSF) der Universität Bremen und seit 1995 als freiberuflicher Berater (Klaus Bartsch Econometrics). 1990/1991 erstellte Klaus Bartsch in enger Kooperation mit Prof. Gerhard Leithäuser die Basisversion seines makroökonometrischen Deutschlandmodells LAPROSIM (Langfristprognose- und Simulationsmodell). Während seiner Tätigkeit am IKSF wurde es ständig weiterentwickelt und u. a. um demographische, verkehrliche und umweltökonomische Submodule erweitert.

 

1993/1994 unterstützte Bartsch auf der Basis eines um ein differenziertes Verkehrsmodul erweiterten Makromodells die Bundesverkehrswegeplanung des Bundesverkehrsministe-riums.

 

Von 1994 bis 2004 unterstützte Klaus Bartsch regelmäßig das Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Institut in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung bei der Erstellung von Konjunkturprognosen und durch makroökonometrische Politiksimulationen zu jeweiligen Brennpunktthemen. Darüber hinaus ist Klaus Bartsch seit 1995 immer wieder in mittelbarem oder unmittelbarem Auftrag des DGB und seiner Einzelgewerkschaften mit ökonometrischen Expertisen befasst.

 

Im mittelbaren Auftrag des Berliner Wirtschaftssenators erweiterte Bartsch im Jahr 2002 LAPROSIM um ein differenziertes Humankapitalmodul und um ein mit dem Makromodell verknüpfte repräsentative Betriebsmodule auf der Basis der Kostenstrukturstatistik, um die Makro- und Mikroeffekte unterschiedlicher Weiterbildungsstrategien simultan behandeln zu können.

 

Im Jahr 1998 baute Bartsch die erste Version seines regionalökonometrischen Modell des Bundeslandes Bremen BRECOMOD (Bremen Economy Model). Dieses Modell und seine Weiterentwicklungen ist von Bartsch seitdem immer wieder im Auftrag der senatorischer Behörden für Wirtschaft und Finanzen sowie der Senatskanzlei des Bundeslandes Bremen zur Ex-Post-Evaluierung alternativer Handlungsstrategien und zum Zweck der Erstellung langfristiger Planungsdaten verwendet worden. Außerdem wurde das Modell im Rahmen eines interdisziplinären Projekts "Klimafolgenabschätzung im Weserästuar" verwendet.

Paul Cockshott

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Cockshott was born in Edinburgh 1952 and educated at McMaster, Manchester, Heriot Watt and Edinburgh Universities. I trained originally as an economist and later studied computer science at Heriot WattUniversity and Edinburgh University. I worked in industry for ICL on hardware verification and for Memex on the design of database machines. I have been a research worker or lecturer at the universities of Edinburgh, Heriot Watt, Glasgow and Strathclyde. Currently I am a Reader in the Computing Science Department at the University of Glasgow.

 
I have a proven track record in intellectual leadership of research groups at Memex, Strathclyde and Glasgow. At Memex, all of the research projects undertaken by their R&D division whilst I was there were proposed by me. At Strathclyde I was instrumental in coalescing the 10 strong Data-Compression group. At Glasgow I am the senior academic in the Computer Vision and Graphics group.

 
* Awarded £715K in government competitive research contracts.

* Secured £615K in industrial research contracts.

* Published 7 books, 4 chapters in books, 41 refereed journal papers, 51 conference papers, and 10 patents.

* Supervised 6 PhD students to completion and is currently supervising 1 PhD student.

Academic Qualifications

 

* B A, Manchester University, 1973 in Economics Hons 2(ii).

* Secondary School Teachers Certificate Moray House, 1974

* MSc. Computer Science, Heriot Watt University, 1976.
* Ph.D. Computer Science, Edinburgh University.

 

Professional Awards. A H Reeve Premium, awarded by Institution of Electrical Engineers in 2005, for my contributions to 3D TV.

 

Membership of Professional Bodies

* EPSRC Computer College 1998-2001

* American Association for Advancement of Science since 1992

* IEEE Computer Society 1977-2002

* International Working Group on Value Theory 1996-2000

 

Allin F. Cottrell

 

 

 

Born, 26 June, 1953. Irvine, Scotland. UK citizen; US resident. Married, with one child.

 

Institution Course of study Degre. University of Edinburgh Economics/Politics Ph.D., 1982. Oxford University Politics, Philosophy B.A. (hons.), 1974. And Economics (Title of Ph.D. thesis: Social classes in Marxist theory and in postwar Britain.)

 

Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University, 1998-present. (Department chair, 1999-2006, Associate Professor 1993-98, Assistant 1989-93.). Visiting lecturer, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, International Business School, Fall 1990. Assistant Professor of Economics, Elon College, North Carolina, 1985-89 and Department Chairman, 1987-89. Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983-85. Lecturer in Economics, Napier College, Edinburgh, 1978-83.

 

PUBLICATIONS

"The Relation between Economic and Political Instances in the Communist Mode of Production" (with W. P. Cockshott), Science and Society, vol. 66, no. 1, Spring 2002, 50-64.

"Democratic Planned Socialism: Feasible Economic Procedures: Comment" (with W. P. Cockshott), Science and Society, vol. 66, no. 1, Spring 2002, 43-44.

"Value's Law, Value's Metric"(with W. P. Cockshott), in Alan Freeman, Andrew Kliman and Julian Wells (eds), The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics, Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, MA: Elgar, 2004, 233-40.

"Robust Correlations between Prices and Labour Values: A Comment" (with W. P. Cockshott), Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 29, no. 2, March 2005, 309-16.

"Reflections on Economic Democracy" (with W. P. Cockshott), in Paul Zarembka (ed.), The Capitalist State and its Economy; Democracy in Socialism. Research in Political Economy, vol. 22. Amsterdam and Oxford: Elsevier, 2005, 217-58.

 

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Scottish Schools Mathematics Award for essay on the philosophy of mathematics, 1970. Exhibition (competitive scholarship) to Merton College, Oxford, 1971. Award for Excellence in Research, Wake Forest University, 1994.

Heinz Dieterich

 

 

 

 

 

M.A. in Sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt/M., FRG 1973. With Honors.

Ph.D. in Social and Economic Sciences, State University, Bremen, FRG, 1976. With Honors.

 

Since 1976: Tenure Professor of Sociology, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México, D.F.

Since 1989: President of the Foro por la Emancipación e Identidad de América Latina, México.

Since 1992: Member of the National Research System (SNI), Level 2, México.

Since 2006: International Coordinator, Bloque Regional de Poder Popular, Latinamerica.

 

Author/Coauthor/ of 30 books, many of them published in several languages, including Chinese, Russian, Italian, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Catalan. Among them:

 

El nuevo orden mundial (1991); Los Vencedores, (1992), (with Noam Chomsky); Cuba ante la razón cínica (1994), Neoliberalismo, Reforma y Revolución en América Latina (1994); La Conquista de la Esperanza. Diarios inéditos de Che Guevara y Raúl Castro, (1995). La Sociedad Global. Educación, Mercado y Democracia; (1996), (con Noam Chomsky); Nueva Guía para la Investigación científica (1996). Globalización, Exclusión y Democracia en América Latina (1997); Curar en Cuba (1997); Cuba ante la Razón Cínica (1998); Latin America: From colonization to globalization. Noam Chomsky in conversation with Heinz Dieterich (1999); Fin del Capitalismo Global. El Nuevo Proyecto Histórico, (1998); Hugo Chávez: Con Bolívar y El Pueblo. Nace un Nuevo Proyecto Latinoamericano (1999); Identidad Nacional y Globalización. La Crisis en las Ciencias Sociales. La Tercera Vía (1999); La Cuarta Vía al Poder: Venezuela, Colombia y Ecuador, (2001); Bases del Nuevo Socialismo, (2001); El Socialismo del Siglo XXI y la Democracia Participativa (2002); Las Guerras del Capital (2006); Der Sozialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts (2006); Hugo Chávez y el Socialismo del Siglo XXI, (2007); Kuba-nach Fidel. Kann die Revolution ueberleben? (2007); El golpe militar contra Evo Morales (2007); El nuevo pensamiento militar latinoamericano del siglo 21 (2007); Historia patriótica de América Latina (2008); Guía para tesis e investigación científicas (2008).

 

Invited as Visiting Professor to Germany, Spain, the United States, Brasil, Nicaragua, Venezuela; Canadá.

Raimundo J. Franco Parellada

 

 

 

 

 

Fecha de nacimiento: 27 de abril de 1944.

 

Doctorado en Física Matemática con especialización en Reactores Nucleares.

Instituto Central de Investigaciones Nucleares de la Academia de Ciencias de la extinta República Democrática Alemana, desde 1980 hasta 1985.

 

Director de Informática y Gestión del Conocimiento del Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente. A partir del 2005. Director de Informática y Comunicaciones del Ministerio de Turismo de Cuba. Del 2000 hasta el 2005. Jefe de Grupo de Investigación sobre dinámica evolutiva de organizaciones sociales utilizando las herramientas de la Teoría de la Complejidad. Instituto de Cibernética, Matemática y Física del Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente de la República de Cuba, (ICIMAF-CITMA). Desde 1996 hasta el 2000. Especialista de Seguridad Nuclear del Ministerio de la Industria Básica de Cuba (MINBAS). Desde 1985 hasta 1986.

 

Bajo mi dirección se elaboró y se presentó al Gobierno el Plan de Desarrollo del Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares. Director del Instituto de Investigaciones Nucleares de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba. Instituto de Física Nuclear, con posterioridad Instituto de Investigaciones Nucleares de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, desde 1969 hasta 1973. Instituto de Investigaciones Nucleares de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, desde 1973 hasta 1980.

 

Algunos eventos:

Conferencista en el "Primer Seminario Bolivariano de Formación Política". Venezuela. Junio-Julio del 2007.

Participe en el "Primer encuentro de los pueblos y estados por la liberación de la Patria Grande". Sucre. Bolivia. Octubre del 27 al 29 del 2006.

Franco, R. 2006. "La Democracia a la luz de la Complejidad". Tercer Seminario Bienal Internacional COMPLIJIDAD 2006. Palacio de las convenciones. La Habana. Cuba. Enero 2006.

Franco, R. 2005 "Complejidad y organizaciones Sociales". Segunda Edición de las Jornadas Bolivarianas. Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro Socio-Económico. Observatorio Latinoamericano. Florianópolis. Brasil. Agosto 2005.

                                Michel Bauwens

 

Michel Bauwens is a Belgian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium> integral philosopher <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_thought> and Peer-to-Peer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-Peer_(meme)> theorist. He has worked as an internet consultant, information manager for British Petroleum <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP> , where he created one of the first virtual information centers, and is former editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine, the Dutch language <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language> Wave <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wave_(journal)&action=edit&redlink=1> .

Bauwens is the author of a number of on-line essays, including a seminal thesis Peer to Peer and Human Evolution and The Political Economy of Peer Production. He is editor of Pluralities-Integration|Pluralities/Integration newsletter. He now lives in Chiang Mai <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Mai> , Thailand <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand> , where he created the Foundation for P2P Alternatives. Preferred themes include: the networked society <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Networked_society&action=edit&redlink=1> , cognitive capitalism <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive_capitalism&action=edit&redlink=1> , Empire and its discontents, emancipatory processes among the 'multitudes' and the possible emergence of a peer to peer civilization, truth-building as a collective and 'dialogical' effort.

In The Political Economy of Peer Production Bauwens regards p2p phenomena as an emerging alternative to capitalist society, although he argues that "Peer production is highly dependent on the market for peer production produces use-value through mostly immaterial production, without directly providing an income for its producers." However, Bauwens goes on to argue that the interdependence is mutual: the capitalist system and market economies are also dependent on p2p production, particularly on distributed networks of information processing and production. Consequently, p2p economy may be seen as extending or already existing outside the sphere of free/open source software production and other non-rival immaterial goods.

This idea is explored also in the essay "Peer to Peer and Human Evolution" that expands the P2P meme <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme> beyond computer technology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_to_peer> . It argues that egalitarian networking <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network> is a new form of relationship that is emerging throughout society <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society> , and profoundly transforming the way in which society and human civilization is organised. [2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Bauwens#cite_note-integralvisioning-1#cite_note-integralvisioning-1> The essay argues that this new form of non-representational democracy is a crucial ingredient in finding the solutions to current global challenges; as well as a new and progressive ethos representing the highest aspirations of the new generations.

 

 

 

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2. Paul, Scotland, explains this alternative, a labour based democratically planned economy. Proposal for pilot study: elaboration of national and sectorial MELT quotients for Latin America and Venezuela, if possible, in cooperation with Venezuelan institutions, like Central Bank etc. Proposal for gradual approach towards 21st century socialist economy in Venezuela (Junge Welt text).

 

Today: it is revealed that bank 'money' is nothing but a system of computer records, whose value is sustained by mutual illusion. At a critical point the illusion is shattered and trillions of $ vanish before our eyes.

 

"Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid

  for all things." ( Adam Smith)

The cost of any article may be reduced in its ultimate analysis to

  the quantity of labour by which it was produced. (Charles Babbage[1] )

 

Objective: a planned economy in which such illusory money is replaced by labour accounts. If you work one hour you are paid 1 hour of such tokens and can purchase goods that took 1 hour to produce.

 

Benefits:

* it eliminates exploitation of the worker.
* It provides an incentive and rewards hard work
* It provides a stable unit of calculation unlike money

 

Getting there:

 Here are a set of policies which could be applied in most countries to carry out the transition.

Counter inflation Policy

 

* Monetary target, fix the value of the Bolivar in terms of labour hours in Venezuela
* Publish each month the Bolivar/labour exchange rate
* Inflation stems from inadequate internal tax revenues, and exchange controls which prevent central bank from using dollar oil revenues to absorb excess Bolivars in circulation. Both these would need to be addressed. Implications for tax revenue and exchange controls spelt out in longer article.
* Once value of the currency is fully stabilized it could be renamed the (Labour) Hour.

 

 

Counter Exploitation Policy

The three great pillars of exploitation are Profit, Interest and Rent.

* Recognise in law that labour is the source of value
* Give workers the right to for full value of their work, this right to be enforcable in labour courts

        * The above measures, once enforced, eliminate profit of capital

* Taxes on landlords to be set to capture the greater part of rent revenue
* Cancellation of debts - this is being done one sidedly to the advantage of Wall St in the USA. A general cancellation of debts should be international policy of socialism.
* Aim, over a longer period to phase out Usury ( interest on loans)

 

Public revenue

There is a danger that private exploitation is seen as being replaced by state exploitation. To prevent this taxes in a socialist country should be voted on by the people themselves. This could be done using mobile phones. At the University of Glasgow we have developed a simple secure system of holding plebiscites using mobile phones. Similarly the main budgetary headings could be approved by electronic plebiscites.

 

Many other issues could be discussed, these are covered in longer paper and in the book 'Hacia el socialismo del siglo XXI'

 

 

 

 

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Approximate translation follows:

 

 

Hoy: se revela que el dinero de 'bancario ' es nada más que un sistema de archivos de computación cuyo valor se sostiene por la ilusión mutua. En un punto crítico la ilusión está estrellada y billones de $desaparezca antes de nuestros ojos.

 

"La labor fue el primer precio, el compra-dinero original que se pagó,

para todas las cosas." (Adán Smith)

El costo de cualquier artículo puede reducirse en su último análisis a

la cantidad de labour por que fue producido. (Charles Babbage[2])

 

El objetivo: una economía planeada en que el tal dinero ilusorio se reemplaza por las cuentas del labour. Si usted trabaja una hora que usted se paga 1 hora de tales fichas y puede comprar bueno que tomaron 1 hora para producir.

 

Los beneficios:

elimina explotación del obrero.

Proporciona un incentivo y premios el trabajo duro

Proporciona una unidad estable de cálculo el dinero diferente

 

Llegando allí:

Aquí es un juego de políticas que podrían aplicarse en la mayoría de los países para llevar a cabo la transición.

Lo opuesto la Política de inflación

 

El blanco monetario, arregle el valor del Bolivar por lo que se refiere a horas del labour en Venezuela

Publique cada mes el tipo de cambio de Bolivar/labour

La inflación proviene de de los réditos del impuesto interiores inadecuados, y reglamentación de los cambios que impiden al banco central usar el dólar los réditos de aceite para absorber los Bolívares del exceso en la circulación. Ambos que éstos necesitarían ser dirigidosse. Las implicaciones para el ingresos tributarios y espelta de las reglamentación de los cambios fuera en el artículo más largo.

Una vez el valor del dinero se estabiliza totalmente podría renombrarse el (el Labour) Hora.

 

 

 

El rédito público

Hay un peligro que la explotación privada se ve como reemplazarse por la explotación estatal. Prevenir esto impone contribuciones en un país socialista debe votarse adelante por las personas ellos. Esto que usa los teléfonos móviles podría hacerse. En la Universidad de Glasgow nosotros hemos desarrollado un sistema seguro simple de sostener plebiscitos que usan los teléfonos móviles. Semejantemente los títulos presupuestarios principales podrían aprobarse por los plebiscitos electrónicos.

 

Podrían discutirse muchos otros problemas, éstos se cubren en el papel más largo y en el libro 'el Hacia el socialismo del siglo XXI '

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] He was the mathematical genius who invented the computer in the 1830s.

[2] Él era el genio matemático que inventó la computadora en los 1830s

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