Do any of you actually study economics or have a good understanding of it and still support Marxism and Socialism?
Do any of you actually study economics or have a good understanding of it and still support Marxism and Socialism?
Hunter Lee
Jose Brooks
Don't start a thread with a negative question.
Rephrase your question in terms of what Marxist economics lacks with regards to mainstream economics.
polite sage
Thomas Myers
Imo Marxism lacks a good 150 years of development. People are still stuck talking about Das Kapital and Gramsci's work. Yes, some problems in our society stood the same, still, where is the Marxist plan for today's society?
Who knows if Marx himself would think Das Kapital is still applicable today.
That's why I'm asking if there's people actually studying economics, because I think they are important to the Marxist "movement" today.
Alexander Gutierrez
"Stuck" talking about Das Kapital? Maybe because it is still highly relevant, and its criticisms and theories are still proven and form the basis of why people are against the capitalist form of production.
People, let this shitpost die. Sounds like OP doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about, and yet puts that on us.
angry sage
Joseph Walker
Let me add that Das Kapital, as good as it might be, is a critique of 19th century capitalism.
It is an important piece, but I don't think it will solve today's working class problems.
Colton Roberts
The relevance of Das Kapital in today's society could be summed up in a 10 page long pamphlet.
Jonathan Sullivan
I did an economics undergrad degree at university.
Reading Capital gave me better theoretical tools to understand the reality of political economy than any of that formal economics I was taught.
However, some study of "mainstream" economics is of course useful.
Austin Hall
I beg to differ on that. Of course it needs to be modernized but market socialism is a stepping stone, not the goal.
Dominic Parker
Deleted my post because I didn't mean to post as the "board owner".
I'm the BO of a different board and it was still in the name field.
If the actual BO's are watching. Don't worry, I'm not trying to imitate a BO.
Anyway, here's my original post again.
Tyler Bennett
Was a libtard for a while so I have a pretty good understanding of Austrian economic theory and the arguments for it (not that, that's anything to brag about since it's pretty elementary shit). Never learned Keynesian economic theory but I took two microeconomics courses in college so I kind of understand the basics of neoclassical economics. Probably most knowledgeable in Marxist economic theory but some of the higher level stuff (the transformation problem for example) still escape me.