A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics - Hadas Thier
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A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%.
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.”
Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory.
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This post has 14 comments with rating of 4/5
December 14th, 2022
Lol
December 14th, 2022
daenigma up to his old tricks
December 15th, 2022
know your enema
December 16th, 2022
The ideology that has brought every nation that adopted it to its knees will yet prove to be the savior of nations that prospered on capitalism? The mere notion is too stupid for comment.
December 16th, 2022
Every nation that adapted this system replaced the capitalist with the state capitalist (it was not the workers controlling the workplace, but the state). On top of that, they had to deal with massive external pressure. Military and economic war by countries far more advanced. Which does nothing but spur authoritarianism. This was called the domino theory, that if they were allowed to succeed, it could spread.
Consider that the change to this system was also done by 3rd world countries, which means that there are massive feats to overcome. The massive external pressure refers to the military attacks of superpowers who have over a hundred years of colonization and slavery under their belts (which was incredibly useful for development), and who now refuse to trade, especially their technologies (this refers to the economic war). Which means as a 3rd world country that has no standardized industries, you must now develop self reliantly these highly advanced technologies (as you can tell, trade is unbelievably important in our world, so this is such a massive barrier - even look at the current capitalist countries that are 3rd world, have they achieved this standard? Of course not (and they’re even allowed to trade with the advanced countries!)).
Yet despite that, the rapid industrialization that some of the countries who switched to this system were able to achieve, is not to be disdainfully disregarded (e.g. USSR managed to build nuclear bombs and were the first to put a man into orbit). Within several decades, they were able to overcome most of these obstacles and started competing with these superpowers. This change delivered significant upgrades in living standards for their populace. Education, healthcare and etc became accessible for major portions of the population. So in some ways, it did succeed much more than is pronounced. Then once that system were reverted back into a capitalist system (e.g. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein), living standards were downgraded and set back by decades (life expectancy, poverty, alcoholism and etc worsened sharply), to the point where some sections still have not recovered. And of course also within no time, it spurred oligarchs and similar authoritarianism.
Yet, nobody is defending that system. Nobody would revert back to that. Just like any experiment, it analyzes its failures and redesigns the experiment so that it could succeed. And what it has in store now, would not allow the state capitalist to return. Nobody is interested in that. It would be more of a libertarian kind of system. It would implement an actual, direct democracy, and it would also do so in the workplace. One where you would reap the rewards of your work, rather than getting a measly 10% or less of the profits you produce, with most of it going to the top so they can build their real estate and other portfolios, raise their prices, then rent them out to you at exorbitant rates.
Blaming Marx for systems he did not design, and disdain of system and class analysis is simply hurting your own interests. The middle class is disappearing. The oligarchs are getting control of ever more capital and power, to the point where your living standards are skyrocketing while wages are not. This is why when you look at the political climate, it has such instability. Why these supremacist movements are coming back with full force (but they’re simply blaming the wrong thing). I believe that if most of you actually looked into what Marx himself said, you would be surprised as to how accurate he is and as to how much it relates to your daily life. Just like philosophers such as Aristotle, there is good reason as to why he remains in the public mind to this day and as to why you should read him.
This is your decision, do you want an economy that works for the 1%, or for income earners, the workers, such as yourself.
December 21st, 2022
…false dichotomy, false history & No True Scotsman there. Anyone else want to try to spot extra fallacies, where the prizes can really change?
“massive feats to overcome” = yet another sleazy euphemism for planned, forced famines, genocide, concentration camps, barbaric invasions of other nations, ideological imperialism & imposing state slavery. Ahh, do much for the busy ideologue to do…
Achievements(?) - “e.g. USSR managed to build nuclear bombs.” What a prosocial achievement. It’d bring a tear to a glass eye. Don’t forget the achievement of Chernobyl.
“Within several decades, they were able to overcome most obstacles & started competing w superpowers.” - Yes. Militarily.
“This change delivered significant upgrades in living standards for their populace.” - Well, of course. That’s why the entire, rotten edifice collapsed.
“Education (id!otic propaganda), healthcare and etc became accessible” - Chronic alcoholism was an escape for miserable people during the Soviet era. Also, multiple cancers from unhealthy lifestyles, and infertility into the bargain (track the pop growth).
“once that system were reverted back into a capitalist system” - Once the catastrophic system collapsed under its own absurdity & ludicrous contradictions.
It spurred authoritarianism only AFTER the Soviet empire? This is the bizarro Twilight Zone right here…
“Yet, nobody is defending that system” (just after desperately trying to defend that appalling system. Yeah.)
“Just like any experiment, it analyzes its failures and redesigns the experiment so that it could succeed.” - Read: theorises on how to retain absolute, oppressive power next time. The future: imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
“It would be more of a libertarian system. It would implement an actual, direct democracy(?) and it would also do so in the workplace.” - And every day will be the first day of Spring. Any evidence for all this “what will be” stuff? Hmmm? If there is an actual change in the ideology’s attitude to democracy, and people will be permitted to vote (precedent?) - will they be allowed to abandon the ideological system which has somehow been imposed upon them? That’s the question, isn’t it? Because people don’t vote for that stuff. That’s why Marx ordained “the necessity of terror.”
“disdain of system and class analysis is simply hurting your own interests.” - P’haps because it lacks full human complexity, and is proven to be mindlessly reductive? Because unimaginably complex human dynamics & psychology cannot be redesigned centrally planned or fatuously commanded? Because such ideological efforts always fail? In the final analysis, if you were honest with yourself, you could compile your own list.
“when you look at the political climate, it has such instability.” - So, impose order? Liberal democracy is flexible, responsive & vitally dynamic - it’s not frozen in Lenin’s tomb.
Ah here, likening a failed fortune teller like Marx to Aristotle - the creator of the disciplines of logic & biology - is like trying to twin Mahatma Gandhi with Donald Trump.
Surely you know it’s never been tried yet, Gertrude? Surely? Gertrude?!
Surely you know that it doesn’t naturally lend itself to extreme, brutal authoritarianism? FFS, Gertrude.
December 22nd, 2022
Capitalism does suck, since you are either wealthy or your a financial slave. But Marxism is just horrible, and will make us all destitute and completely dependent on the govt for EVERYTHING. But capitalism has given us the highest standard of living a nation ever had, marxism will destroy all that, like it always has.
May 3rd, 2024
None of the People in the comments seem to have listened to the Book. Most wouldnt be able to explain what basic terms such as Capitalism, Marxism & class mean
May 3rd, 2024
None of the People in the comments seem to have listened to the Book. Most wouldnt be able to explain what basic terms such as Capitalism, Marxism & class mean. Almost Everything Caesar says is unsourced and seems to be uninformed drivel,at best. Hes never read marx nor any of the impartially acknowledged achievements of the USSR.
May 3rd, 2024
“The concentration camps” - The gulags, where most of the prisoners were Common criminals, there were 8 hour work days, there were food rations in keeping w the nutritional requirements. The prison population,even att the height of the war was nowhere near the prison population of the US,neither as % or in raw numbers.
“The brutal invasion”- Of Afghanistan where the elected government of Afghanistan begged the Soviets for help with the Mujahiddin for over a decade, & where the US funded and aided otherwise religious extremists who developed over the next 2 decades into the Al Qaeda & Taliban.
May 3rd, 2024
The
Soviet Union not only eliminated the exploiting
classes, but also Ended Inflation,
Unemployment, Racial and National discrimination,
extreme poverty, massive inequalities of
wealth, income, education, and opportunity.
In 50
years, the country went from industrial
production that was only 12 percent of the
USto 80
percent,& agricultural output 85 percent of
the U.S. This was way way faster than the US had developed.
Employment was guaranteed. Free
education was available for all, from kindergarten
through secondary schools (general, technical
and vocational), universities, and after-work
schools. Besides free tuition, post-secondary
students received living stipends. Free healthcare care existed for all, with about twice as many
doctors per person as in the United States.
In the mid-1970s,
workers averaged 21.2 working days of vacation. Sanitariums, resorts,
and children’s camps were either free or
subsidized. Trade unions had the power to veto
firings and recall managers. The state regulated
all prices and subsidized the cost of basic food
and housing. Rents constituted only 2-3 percent of
the family budget; water and utilities only 4-5
percent. No segregated housing by income
existed. Though some neighborhoods were
reserved for high officials.
The government included cultural and
intellectual growth as part of the effort to enhance
living standards. State subsidies kept the price of
books, periodicals and cultural events at a
minimum. As a result, workers often owned their
own libraries, and the average family subscribed
to four periodicals. UNESCO reported that Soviet citizens read more books and saw more films
than any other people in the world. Every year the
number of people visiting museums equaled
nearly half entire population, and attendance at
theaters, concerts, and other performances
surpassed the total population. The government
made a concerted effort to raise the literacy and
living standards of the most backward areas and
to encourage the cultural expression of the more
than a hundred nationality groups that constituted
the Soviet Union. In Kirghizia, for example, only
one out of every five hundred people could read
and write in 1917, but fifty years later nearly
everyone could!
In 1983, American sociologist Albert
Szymanski reviewed a variety of Western studies
of Soviet income distribution and living standards.
He found that the highest paid people in the
Soviet Union were prominent artists, writers,
professors, administrators, and scientists, who
earned as high as 1,200 to 1,500 rubles a month.
Leading government officials earned about 600
rubles a month; enterprise directors from 190 to
400 rubles a month; and workers about 150 rubles a month.
May 24th, 2024
“Here are the problems with capitalis-”
“WHAT ABOUT THIS DEAD GOVERNMENT THAT NO LONGER EXISTS??!?!??!?!?!”
- every comment section where the name “marx” is mentioned
September 17th, 2024
Seeds please :)
October 4th, 2024
Thank you!!!
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