21 sats \ 3 replies \ @mallardshead OP 29 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: Bitcoin satisfying Karl Marx's Das Kapital model of capitalism? bitcoin
Yeah I addressed that in the first paragraph: "The logic of their takes is akin to blaming the writer of whale mating and migration patterns for illegal fishermen using the information to more effectively hunt whales." Das Kapital is an objective book that methodologically explains the workings of capitalism under a centralized money standard. I was talking about that book specifically, not what authoritarians did a century later. Is Jesus responsible for the Spanish Inquisition?
I dont think your whale hunting analogy is adequate for the philosophical subversion in Marx’s “Critique”.
He wasnt a cogent, disinterested student of economics. He was an aberrant theologian who viewed existence through the dialectic, not as it really is.
He was the opposite of scientific.
Did he hit on a few points that conform to reality? Probably. But since, to Marx, truth and lies can be dialectically synthesized into a higher understanding, his work is of little value. Except as a warning of what not to do and how not to think.
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Marx was important. He explained capitalism in a way nobody had yet, and his ideas were an important tool for subsequent economists and thinkers to develop a better understanding, and build better models. Most take the mention of Marx as a grand ideological position. I don't. His ideas simply get added to the mosaic of economic intelligence through the centuries, and it gives us all a richer understanding. Things as old as that, preserved through writing (this can include music) don't survive at large in the global consciousness if they have no value.
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Yes, he explained capitalism in a way that no one had, because he was ascribing demiurgic creative power to market economics that, he claimed, were necessarily exploitive and alienated man from his true socialist nature. Wrong, wrong, deadly and wrong.
His analysis adds nothing of value. Its based on a hyperreality that doesn’t exist.
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