built_on_hope comments on Whenever a chud says "Oh you're a communist? Read a book, moron!" I've started asking "Which do you recommend?" but I've never gotten a reply 😕🤔

[–] built_on_hope@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Oh hey I read this recently (know thine enemy and all that). It’s actually laugh-out-loud hilarious. He literally says at one point that price gouging is a good thing during natural disasters, because otherwise no one would be incentivised to deliver humanitarian supplies

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yep! I also checked it out a bit and yea, you're spot-on.

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net [S] 3 points 8 months ago

John Stossel-thought

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[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

The more I hear about it the more I wonder how no one seems to have thought of writing an article or a video dunking on how stupid and ridiculous neo-liberal economic theories are yet.

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[–] built_on_hope@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The system justifies itself: they train and pay thousands of economists to believe their own hype, and make it so that those economists are the only “authoritative” sources, and all the voices of sanity are drowned out.

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[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Still, you would think at least one communist somewhere would have written a debunking of modern vulgar economics by now, especially given the fact that with how obviously nonsensical neoclassic economics is, it's probably the weakest pillar of the modern liberal ideology and the easiest to attack for Marxists.

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[–] built_on_hope@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I’m sure there are plenty of books attacking neoclassic economics, but I’m not really familiar with the video content in this space. Maybe some others have suggestions. @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net is there anything you might know of/on TankieTube?

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[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago*

As far as I know there is this one: Why the Labor Theory of Value is Correct - Criticism of Marshall's

And kind of this one: guide to marxist economics introduction episode in which thefinnishbolshevik briefly talk about what Marx called vulgar economics.

And that's about it for criticism from a Marxist perspective I think.

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