• marcos@lemmy.world
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    4 个月前

    Psychoanalysis is an outdated philosophical theory, so indeed just a scam now.

    Quite like Marxism.

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        In that it’s an outdated economics theory… In fact, it was outdated when it was first published already.

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            In that it ignored the previous half a century of (well tested) advances on the area and just made claims that were already known not to hold on the real world.

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              Can you for one second elaborate on anything you’re saying? What did Marx ignore, and what doesn’t hold in the real world?

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                For example, the entire labor theory of value doesn’t hold up on the real world and Economics had already better explanations for the phenomenon it was trying to explain.

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                  What part of Marx’s LTV doesn’t hold up? What theories explain Value better?

                  Are you capable of specifics, or can you only gesture? I am genuinely trying to see if you have an actual argument, I’m a Marxist and I encourage you to point to something that could maybe test that.

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                    None of the LTV hold up. For a start, it predicts that people won’t ever trade. That’s quite a big flaw because, you know, people do trade. Theories of value predicting people won’t trade was a big problem by the time Marx was young. His one doesn’t solve the problem at all, but well, it wasn’t a problem anymore when he published.

                    The family of theories of value that predict that trade happens are called “subjective theories of value”.