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WTF Is Marxism? Dialectics Shake the World | Mortal Science
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Derrick says that the thing that unties Marxists historically is the [[ labor theory of value ]]
Ezri says that if you hold that [[ socialism ]] is just a form of managed capitalism, then you must think of [[ exploitation ]] in a different way than [[ Marx ]] did
Ezri says that [[ dialectical materialism ]] is, broadly, a [[ philosophy of science ]] , not just social phenomena
[[ Dialectics ]] have been around since ancient Greek times as a means of argumentation, [[ Hegel ]] ’s innovation is that he turns it into an ontology
Hegel’s dialectics only works on ideas because for Hegel ideas are the only things that are real
What is unique to capitalism is reinvestment and wage labor i.e. labor as a market
The business cycle appears once you get industrial production
Derrick remarks that a lot of state activity is the battling between various factions of the bourgeoisie rather than class antagonisms
“Communism is the removal of [[ alienation ]] from the productive realm”
Classical dialectics is about creating definitions from a description or discussion so as to move to axiomatic logic
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