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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?
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