Marxists have been systemically debunked, at this point it’s the flat-earthers of economics. Yet they come back tirelessly.

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andrepd 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Marxism and Marxist theory has made prescient points about capitalism that have repeatedly been confirmed in the past ~200 years.

Obviously they did not get everything right (far from it), as their most fervent acolytes believed. But then again, in economics, who does?

	▲	JumpCrisscross 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Marxism and Marxist theory has made prescient points about capitalism that have repeatedly been confirmed in the past ~200 years Sort of? Marxism is like economic phlogeston. It’s experimentally predictive to many extents. But it gets some basics wrong and is superseded in its entirety by better models, particularly for information-age and increasingly-automated economies.

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Atlas667 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Then why it's so pertinent that capitalist countries waste billions fighting it wherever it arises?

More murder and war has been perpetrated as part of anti-Marxism than any other cause in history.

- The Vietnam "War" (Genocide) - The Korean "War" (Genocide too) - The whole Afghanistan affair that still resonates on today - Balkanization (induced by NATO) - Indonesian govt killing 1.5 million in a single year (CIA) - US trained South American Death Squads - Invasion of Barbados by the US - the overthrow of Burkina Faso - the overthrow of Allende - the School of the Americas - Nazis killed more non-semitic East Europeans than jews in the name of anti-marxism

You could, in a very real sense, draw a line through the history of modern warfare and the history of anti-Marxism.

Only for Americans is it a myth because they are primed by their billionaire controlled media and educational system to avoid it.

All in all, its a theory of socio-economic development that implies the democratization of production. That's literally whats so bad about it.