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Originally Posted by Alan
Pretty much. No marxist since the nineteenth fucking century takes Das Kapital to be remotely true. Karl Marx himself didn't even finish Das Kapital and the biggest marxist speculation for this is that he realized he was wrong.
By the way, it was stupid enough for you to try and school me about Marxism, but even worse, you actually fucking believe "Nearly every free market capitalist espouse Adam Smith's ideas in the Wealth of Nations"?
The only ones who espouse SOLELY Adam Smith are Austrian capitalists, a group you mentioned but failed to mention they are a ridiculously tiny minority; plus they only use Smith's economic writings and not his social writings
(""Behold! I have invented the most devious pyramid scheme of all time! CAPITALISM!"
& "What are the common wages of labour, depends every where upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same ... The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorises, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen.")
Every other capitalist knows better than to believe in the stupidity of Austrian Economics, an economic cult so ridiculous that its own leader demands FAITH to believe in it (""its statements and propositions are not derived from experience... They are not subject to verification or falsification on the ground of experience and facts." Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics.)
Capitalism has evolved in theory as much as Marxism. Capitalism's greatest contributor since Adam Smith, and in man ways much more important than Smith, has been Keynes, yet you did not mention him at all. And then there's the contributions of Piero Sraffa and Gunnar Myrdal.
You seem to be stuck in economic theories of two hundred years ago. You need to update your economics.
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Not to mention Fredrick Von Hayek (sp). Not that I like the man (I don't) but he's the often sighted counterpoint to Keynes
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