• marcos@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    In that it’s an outdated economics theory… In fact, it was outdated when it was first published already.

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        2 years ago

        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.