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Hi everyone, I am new to the Mises community and was a former leftist and supporter of socialism in Canada until around age 23 when I got hit over the head with real life enough to realize what an abysmal failure socialism is and realized that all of the material prosperity that I enjoy has come from...
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[quote user="Prateek Sanjay"] @Liberte [quote]lol@physical sciences having any bearing on economic theory. Even Marx knew better.[/quote] Yeah, I am not kidding one bit when I say that leftists once used to be cool. At least, a league above today's leftists. Which is why so many early socialists...
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Iskrabronstein wrote: "Typical Marxian version of 'logical thinking.' 1. If proven they are wrong, their reply is "You are just as bad, if not worse. . . . " Yes, this is typical. Experimental data from laboratories of proletarian dictatorship should be carefully analyzed. Marx...
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Inquiry & Analysis. I am interested in a discussion of the foundations of the Austrian view- as the participants of this forum understand them. I have been reading in this area and I have a lot of material at my disposal; so I am not seeking links or suggested reading; I have fundamental questions...
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Well don't misinterpret this as an endorsement of Marxist theory. My point is only that the CPC's official reason for being in power is that they are supposed to bring about stateless Communism. But its not taken very seriously inside or outside the party, and their main claim to legitimacy is...
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Great list guys. I heard Ralph Raico refer to the alexander gray book today.It sounded awesome then but when someone say it has left anarchists in it ,that just sold it for me.I really need to wrap my head around this stuff and the manifesto.I have read some of it,it's soo dull.I don't know why...
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[quote user="scineram"] [quote user="ViennaSausage"] Marxist (or radical) Economics: the school of economics that emphasizes the power that comes with the ownership and control of capital. [/quote] Italics mine, proving these are bunch of nonsense. [/quote]How would the italics prove...
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It's hard to discuss economics with a Marxist. It's even harder when you are an Austrian, the school of thought which is essentially the polar opposite of Marxism. Below is an email from my Marxist friend, we each attend the same Marxist "study group". I sent him a link to what I thought...
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[quote user="JonBostwick"]Marx did not simply misidenity the classes. Classes, in the marxist sense, do not exist.[/quote] Karl Marx draw the line between workers and owners of firms. According to him the workers are exploited by the owners (capitalist). I do not know about a society where...
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[quote user="wombatron"]It's the refutation of the labor theory of value. The Marxist conception of exploitation depends on the idea that all of the value of a product comes from the labor that went into its use. Thus, a factory owner who sells the goods made in his factory for a profit...