/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2292622
mainstream economics:
>if you are poor it's because you are lazy, retarded, and evil
here you go

>>2292768
most likely comes from the prosperity gospel thing of rich people being favored by god that arose during the victorian era

>>2292794
The economic form determines the superstructure. Of course a capitalist society will eventually explain why landleeches and other parasites are morally superior to people who work for a living.

>>2292768
Not really. Most economists these days have since diverged from that type of thinking just out of respect for basic empirical data. However, to grifters nothing has changed in centuries.

>>2292622
Mainstream economics conveniently ignores that entire capitalist structure relies on paying workers less than they produce
Mainstream economics predicts that capitalism has cyclical crises and yet it treats them as natural and self-evident
Mainstream economics praises free markets and private property while downplaying the massive and vital role goverments play in capitalism's auccess

Mainstream economics in general is less an attempt to understand the world as it is i.e. political economy/dialectical materialism and more just cheerleading for capitalism

>>2292817
If "economists this day" cared about empirical data they would support the Labor Theory of Value.

>>2292794
i love the fact that there's a literla prosperity gospel televangelist in the USA named "Creflo Dollar" and nobody blinks an eye.

>>2292768
A terrible voice comes forth from the temple of the God of Capital, and shouts: “All is right, because all is written in the book of eternal laws. Already a very distant time arose, in which all humans still roamed free and equal throughout the Earth. Few of these were laborious, sober and economical; all of the others idlers, revelers and squanderers. Virtue made the first rich, and vice impoverished the second. The few had the right to enjoy (these and their descendants) of the virtuously accumulated wealth; while the many pushed by their misery to sell themselves to the rich, were condemned to serve those and their descendants eternally.”

>>2292622
until Marx mainstream economic theory, called classical economics, defended a variety of labor theories of value, that differed mostly in detail, but the essential gist of it was that the cost of production was the primary (or most influential) factor in the formation of a commodity's natural (or equilibrium) price, which is its normal price under normal circumstances, and also, that the primary (or most influential) factor in the cost of production was contribution of labor. Marx took classical economics, drew the obvious conclusions of class struggle, exploitation, alienation, and revolution from it, resolved the remaining contradictions of classical economics, and attacked the mode of production as a transitory historical form rather than an eternal fixture (by drawing from history, anthropology, and science, rather than simply economics). Marx is the Darwin of economics. For this reason mainstream economics transformed from a progressive scientific investigation into wages profit and rent (under the classicals) into a priesthood defending the mode of production from revolutionary movement under the economists who came after Marx. Marx killed political economy with his critique, and the bourgeoisie has been parading around its dead corpse, and giving it papal authority, and decorating it with silly innovations like Marginal Utility Theory, and Subjective Theory of Value.

To the extent that there can be a critique of Marx from the Communists themselves, it simply tries to build upon and refine the specifics of Marx's discoveries, rather than refute the essence of them (see vid related regarding the bees/architect passage from volume 1 for an example). This is very similar to how biologists build upon and refine Darwin rather than refuting the essence of him. Only clowns try to say evolution is wrong. Only clowns try to say Marx is wrong.

>>2292830
Political satire is dead

classical liberalism:
>The philosopher John Locke also wrote reports on how to deal with the children of the poor: ‘The children of the labouring people are an ordinary burthen to the parish and are usually maintained in idleness, so that their labour also is lost to the public till they are 12 or 14 years old.’ The conclusion drawn by Locke (left) was that poor children should be put to work at three years old with a bellyful of bread daily, supplemented in cold weather by ‘a little warm water-gruel’. Locke’s views were not extraordinary at the time
>>2292622
>Only clowns try to say evolution is wrong. Only clowns try to say Marx is wrong.
When you apply the theory of Darwinism, you can create fascist eugenics. When people apply Marxist theory, it can also be flawed and following in reactionary bourgeois ideology like Malthusianism etc

>>2292622
>Mel Blanc
Don't get the reference sorry

>>2293156
Voice of many classic Looney Tunes characters inlcluding Porky Pig.

>>2292850
>Marx is the Darwin of economics.
Is that why modern China, the most powerful socialist nation in the world, has "revised" his theories so much, to the point where they've created social democracy from first principles?