Tag: Karl Marx
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Supressing dissent in the age of Orwell
Totalitarian and autocratical regimes have a lot of experience with supressing dissent . I was born in the democratical Czechoslovakia (the nowadays Czech Republic). And people had a lot to say about how well the communists were good at oppressing dissidents and opposite opinions, stances and attitudes. However, the current Western world’s establishment, no matter…
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Why Marx’s Capital couldn’t be published or be influential nowadays
Karl Marx’s “Capital” is a work in the field of political economy and has been widely studied and influential since its publication. And its consequences besides academia and intellectual circles? Millions of extrajudicial killings, gulags, famine, and repressed freedom of speech, but also alleviating the negative attributes of capitalism: full employment, solid salaries, free healthcare,…
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Economics, the pseudoscience
Yes, you will raise an objection. Without the modern (mathematized) economy the world would be an absolute mess. We must know the relations between inflation, unemployment, economical output, real estate, consumption and so on. But there is leftist or rightist economics, am I wrong? No, I am not wrong. Imagine leftist or rightist chemistry, physics,…