• Eheran@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Who is terrified of what? Which numbers? Why do the rich need us so bad? What about, for example, the 1/2 voting shit like Trump?

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      6 months ago

      If only there was a body of literature explaining the theoretical underpinnings of Marxism.

      I don’t mean to be a dick. Gramsci is a bit of a tough read but his works are worth reading (or even just getting a summary of). Marx is a philosopher who never did any of the evils of communism. He (and Engels) simply described capitalism and then some ideas on what to change. Were they correct? I don’t know. But I do know my most conservative Econ professors assigned us Marx readings because you cannot understand economics without understanding Marx.

      Understanding multiple frameworks (even those you think are wrong) is healthy. I think Ayn Rand blows goats compared to Adam Smith and Marx but I still read enough of her bullshit to know I disagreed. Adam Smith hated absentee landlords more than Marx did.

      Edit: I changed Kant to Adam Smith to keep on topic.

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      6 months ago

      Rich people need blue & white collar workers and poor people to continue to work or else the economy stops.

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        6 months ago

        That’s an argument I often make. At its fundamental core capitalism will never survive without the workers to support it … whereas humans survived millennia without any form of organized capitalism.

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          6 months ago

          It’s not the 'ism’s that produce the capital. It’s the laborers. The 'ism’s just dictate who gets the benefits.