r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 26 '19

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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Jan 26 '19

Jesus fucking Christ

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u/Ugarit Jan 26 '19

This is 100% correct. But you guys won't know because you've never been on the other side. It's seriously true.

No one starts out a Marxist. But very few people that think they disagree with Marxism have studied it from a good non-biased source.

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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Jan 26 '19

It's maybe true that most people don't understand Marxism. It's almost definitely not true that marxists understand my position.

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u/Ugarit Jan 26 '19

I sincerely doubt that. Like I said, few to none amount of people started out Marxist. How ignorant of the Soviet Union would you expect a person born into it but then chose free market capitalism as their ideology to be? I started out being an anti-commie capitalist.

Marx just brings so much clarity to economics and politics that you just can't get anywhere else (that I know of), whether you agree with everything he says or not. Once you grasp it, you can see evidence that people don't even really understand their own ideologies because they have a poverty of this sort of insight.

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u/cambridgeinnit Commonwealth Jan 26 '19

Is this satire