Many of my mutuals are explicitly anti-capitalist and advocate for communism and/or socialism. Despite what you may have heard, as an +
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@asymbina in the end i don't know if i'm going to be able to keep up my so far pristine record of not reading Capital -
@chaosprime I've not read Das Kapital, or Keynes' General Theory, and I've only parts of The Wealth of Nations. -
@chaosprime While they're both tremendously important in the history of my field, they're not terribly relevant to modern theory, save for + -
@chaosprime the parts that are still part of fundamentals (and Keynes is most prominently represented there). -
@asymbina thank you for making me feel better about my extensive procrastination regarding giant lumps of Marx -
@asymbina tbh the idea of reading Marx and Engels makes me utterly weary b/c they were quite explicit about engaging in motivated reasoning -
@asymbina (Engels "putting socialism on a scientific basis" in the late edition intro to Anti-Duhring, i'm thinking of) -
@asymbina doesn't mean their ideas are bad but constantly being on guard for normative vs. descriptive exhausts the crap out of me - 1 more reply
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