Sorry if this is a stupid question but fortunately I’m uneducated.
You have “Marxist economists” like Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, and you have “non-Marxist leftists” like Noam Chomsky and Carl Oglesby. What do Marxist and non-Marxist mean in this context? Is it like, Marxists think that everything Marx thought was correct and non-Marxists think everything he thought was wrong? Or is it like a >50% thing, if you think Marx was right more than half the time you’re a Marxist and if not then you’re a non-Marxist?
This is probably the wrong community to ask but how is it possible to be a non-Marxist (assuming that means you think Marx was wrong about everything) when fictitious capital and a reserve army of labor are staring you in the face?
It me. It sounds like “theres are 2 opposing systems that fundamentally dont work together. Eventually this conflict gets resolved with something that makes sense of them both.” Is this way off, or in the ballpark?
Ballpark, I’d say! There’s a lot more to it than that, though, such as the interdependence of these opposing forces (capitalists and workers oppose each other but depend on them too) and if you’re down for a read I recommend Elementary Principles of Philosophy by Georges Politzer.
Cool, thanks
No problem!