But see, now she doesn't have time to organize or even attend a Revolutionary action of any kind!
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The first rule of a successful abuse of power is to make people too busy trying to survive to worry about what your policies are
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Read Marx, everyone.
No, but thank you though.
Why not?
Reading Marx is like reading Adam Smith. Both wrote about economic systems before economics was even a thing. All ideas start somewhere but our ideas, and our society, have advanced dramatically in the 140+ years they've been dead. They're more interesting for historical purposes than economic ones.
It's always hilarious when illiterates proceed to make clowns of themselves by discussing things they haven't read.
Das Kapital described crypto before digital computers were even an idea. His work is still relevant.
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Both wrote about economic systems before economics was even a thing.
Lol. Lmao, even.
and our society, have advanced dramatically in the 140+ years they've been dead.
In what manner has this proven Marx wrong?
You're very good at saying you're right and very bad at providing evidence. The best thing about lemmy's size is I can recognize which usernames to disregard immediately after enough encounters.
The books Marx wrote are the evidence. If you read them then you'd see why they are obviously relevant today. Of course, reading and understanding serious literature takes more effort than trolling on public forums.
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What evidence am I supposed to provide here, exactly? I'm asking for clarification.
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But it's also hard to know what contemporary economists are arguing without reading those foundational writers
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Long, boring, hard to pay attention to. I read philosophy and theory sometimes but it's few and far between for those reasons. I really have to be in a special mood to sit down and read something that dense.
Long, boring, hard to pay attention to.
There are simpler, shorter, and easier works by Marx, Like Critique of the Gotha Programme, Wage Labor and Capital, as well as Value, Price, and Profit.
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