Sorry if this is a stupid question but fortunately I’m uneducated.

You have “Marxist economists” like Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, and you have “non-Marxist leftists” like Noam Chomsky and Carl Oglesby. What do Marxist and non-Marxist mean in this context? Is it like, Marxists think that everything Marx thought was correct and non-Marxists think everything he thought was wrong? Or is it like a >50% thing, if you think Marx was right more than half the time you’re a Marxist and if not then you’re a non-Marxist?

This is probably the wrong community to ask but how is it possible to be a non-Marxist (assuming that means you think Marx was wrong about everything) when fictitious capital and a reserve army of labor are staring you in the face?

  • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    No problem!

    Oh yea, I have some dedicated haters that put an almost supernatural reverance/fear of me. I’ve been on MWoG many times, I don’t really take anything that Nazi bar says seriously just like I don’t take flat Earthers or MAGA seriously. It is funny when even that Nazi bar pushes back against OP though, haha.

    My favorite self-report from that thread:

    OP , I tapped this several times trying to downvote the .ml commenter I have labled for being a tankie… only to realize each time that: nope, it was still a screenshot. I am not a smart man.

    he-laughed

    • OP , I tapped this several times trying to downvote the .ml commenter I have labled for being a tankie… only to realize each time that: nope, it was still a screenshot. I am not a smart man.

      he-laughed

      These people are the type to drown in a few inches of water at the penguin exhibit lmfao

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      I really don’t know how you do it, you’re stronger than me, I couldn’t handle that level of liberal smug ignorance. I hate how every non lemmygrad/hexbear place on the fedverse is just pure reddit smuggness, no idea why they ever left.

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        I really don’t take any of them seriously, just like I don’t take flat Earthers or MAGA seriously. The ones that change over time more than make up for it, as well as the ones that already were fairly pro-communism but wanting direction. That’s about it, really!