I might write a summary later
Paul Cockshott is an unrepentant TERF who hangs around on Mumsnet, Britain’s foremost TERF forum. I’ve also watched him spew transphobic garbage in several leftist Facebook groups I’m in. He’s directly told a trans friend of mine she’s not a real woman through a comment he posted. He is every bad part of the worst sorts of transphobes and this should disqualify him from being a serious leftist voice. Fuck Paul Cockshott and fuck the island of white devils he came from
paul cockshott isn’t wrong when he says capitalism is bad just because he also happens to be a transphobe (calling him a TERF is too dignified since the RF implies that he’s a radical feminist, but he’s not even that). but yes I agree we should post comrade hakim’s takedown of sabine instead
Forgive me if I’m confusing him with someone else, but Cockshott is TERF-ish, right?
He isn’t TERF-y. He is an unrepentant turbo TERF. Some TERFs like Rowling try and couch what they say to not appear transphobic. Cockshott doesn’t even bother, he wears his transphobia on his sleeve.
And Towards a New Socialism was invaluable in helping me understand Capital so it’s complicated for me.
I would say non-fiction works is a good time to practice the ‘separate the artist from the art’ principle. You can pirate a useful book from a shitty person, but you can’t exactly pirate a concert from a shitty musician.
