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?

  • fort_burp@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Thanks for your answer.

    most people in a place like America have literally never heard the phrases “fictitious capital” or “reserve army of labor,” or perhaps they heard it in passing once but don’t remember hearing it.

    Yes, this is a great success of class warfare :/