Economic principles from a Marxist/socialist point view?

Marx wrote about the political economy and its relationship between boss and worker.

I heard sometimes from leftists that the current academic economic courses are deeply influencied by the logic of liberalism and financial capitalism and thus it got very abtract concepts from a bourgeois perspective.

I wonder if there are some economic principles irrespective of political ideologies that exist because it’s inherent of any social human group (from tribal groups untill metropolitan people)?

I find an important question for we discuss and try to understand how the society works and how we could adjust it to a possible future socialist society and economy.

Do you guys know any principle or principles which don’t depend on political ideologies and it are inherent to any social human group with more than some tens of people?

I would like see what many people would say about it from a socialist base.

  • @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    I think this whole line of thought risks leading into very pseudoscientific territory, of the “evolutionary psychology” sort. I think we need to be careful not to commit naturalistic fallacies.

    It seems to me you are looking for a way to get “non-ideological” answers, this is a trap that a lot of people fall into who think that they have somehow managed to transcend ideology.

    As Zizek pointed out, people who think they have no ideology are frequently the most ideological of all. Ideology is all around us, human society is built on it. You can’t escape it.

    The question is do you want to have a proletarian or a bourgeois ideology?

  • @Prole1871@lemmygrad.ml
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    22 years ago

    You might want to look into environmental economics, or energy economics. These attempt to ground economic analysis in material categories e.g. metals, water, energy, nutrients (NPK), etc. They are non-ideological in the sense that they are universally applicable across societies, but not in the sense that they have no political conceptual background; many are influenced by Marxism, and some are explicitly Marxist.