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Privileged, child, or petite bourgeois aspirations?
Yeah, to be a communist you have to be stupid enough to read books on economics.
Oh, you sound really informed on this. What books of marxist economics have you read to come to this conclusion? What theory of subjective value based economics books?
I mean, I've just spent over a decade studying various schools of economics, maybe you have much more insight than me on this topic.
You're literally a self described libertarian lmao
Anyway, stop dodging the question. What economic writings have you read from Marx that you're basing your opinion of Marxist economics on? What problems did you have with them?
Literally a communist, something that could actually get me targeted by the state instead of being a "no step on snek" cosplayer.
His magnum opus is literally an economic analysis of how capitalism functions lmao
Okay, so you haven't read his work and you buy into the idea that "all socialist projects have failed" despite all their successes, and the continued survival of many projects.
So you favor a more shallow understanding of where value emerges from, and you haven't read what Marx has actually said about subjective value. What makes the product valuable to whoever is buying jt? Subjective value wants you to believe it is just arbitrary.
Okay, so have you read anything about surplus labor value theory? Anything about alienation under capitalism?
Also the notion that were all getting richer at different rates needs evidence.
Why would I read Sowell when I already know about neoliberalism and what it did literally everywhere it was tried?
Breaking news: Pigeon shits on chess board, flies off.
Recommending Sowell unironically for economics is like recommending L. Ron Hubbard for physics. Sowell is a crank and supports Imperialism and Colonialism, as in his own admitted views believes they enrich the victims. Not only that, but he makes incredibly basic, fundamental mistakes whenever he has to talk about Marxism, proving himself uneducated on the matter and unqualified to talk about it.
Sowell is science-fiction. He's a Chicago school crank that either intentionally misunderstanding basic economic concepts and basic Marxism in order to make money from clueless conservatives, or is unintentionally misunderstanding the absolute basics of economics and Marxism because he's a Chicago school crank. The reason I think it's fairly likely he's misleading everyone and laughing to the bank is because he's made horribly indefensible positions such as being pro-Imperialism and Pro-colonialism, which leads me to believe it's fairly likely he's a grifter.
Marx is absolutely a better recommendation, his analysis of Capitalism is sound and he spent his life defending it and improving it. Advocating for a future Classless society doesn't make it sci-fi, it's just advocacy. That's like calling Unionization efforts sci-fi, that's an utterly embarrassing position to hold. Just because you can't actually counter Marx doesn't mean you have to recommend Sowell, if you're going to troll then do better.