Some Recent Links for Karl Marx 200 ~ Mike Norman Economics

Paul Jay interviews Dr. Gerald Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston

Radical Political Economy
Bicentenary of Marx’s Birth, His Legacy and His Last Laugh (1818-2018)

Cyrus Bina | Distinguished Research Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Minnesota, Morris

Jacobin
Marx the Journalist
An Interview with James Ledbetter

Truthout

Marx's Relevance in Today's World: A Reflection on His 200th Birthday
Jean Batou, Translated by Robert James Parsons, Le Courrier , Truthout| Op-Ed

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AXEC / E.K-H said...: Tom Hickey

You forgot some pertinent links:

Profit for Marxists
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2414301

Karl Marx, fake scientist
https://axecorg.blogspot.de/2017/08/karl-marx-fake-scientist.html

Marx, the moron
https://axecorg.blogspot.de/2017/06/marx-moron.html

Marx and the curious coexistence of provably false economic theories
https://axecorg.blogspot.de/2017/08/marx-and-curious-coexistence-of.html

Capitalism, poverty, exploitation, and cross-over exploitation
https://axecorg.blogspot.de/2018/04/capitalism-poverty-exploitation-and.html

Economics: 200+ years of scientific incompetence and fraud
http://axecorg.blogspot.de/2017/06/economics-200-years-of-scientific.html

Economists: Standing on the Shoulders of Gnomes
http://axecorg.blogspot.de/2018/04/economists-standing-on-shoulders-of.html

Overreach: Economists have their fingers in every pie except real economics
https://axecorg.blogspot.de/2018/04/overreach-economists-have-their-fingers.html

Profit: after 200+ years still elusive
https://axecorg.blogspot.de/2018/04/profit-after-200-years-still-elusive.html

Profit and the Private-Property-Irrelevance Theorem
https://axecorg.blogspot.de/2018/05/profit-and-private-property-irrelevance.html

Egmont Kakarot-Handtke; May 5, 2018 at 6:46 AM
Noah Way said...: You just have to admire the veritable host of distinctly individual and independent sources used to support the anti-Marxist argument.; May 5, 2018 at 6:27 PM
Bob Roddis said...: When the USSR collapsed, some socialists FINALLY conceded that Mises was right and socialism was impossible. Robert Heilbroner for one.

He was not entirely impervious to new evidence, however. In 1989, he famously wrote in The New Yorker:

"Less than 75 years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won... Capitalism organizes the material affairs of humankind more satisfactorily than socialism."

In The New Yorker again the next year, he reminisced about hearing of Ludwig von Mises at Harvard in the 1930s. But of course his professors and fellow students scoffed at Mises's claim that socialism could not work. It seemed at the time, he wrote, that it was capitalism that was failing. Then, a mere 50 years later, he acknowledged: "It turns out, of course, that Mises was right" about the impossibility of socialism. I particularly like the "of course." Fifty years it took him to grasp the truth of what Mises wrote in 1920, and he blithely tossed off his newfound wisdom as "of course."

https://reason.com/archives/2005/01/21/the-man-who-told-the-truth; May 6, 2018 at 10:08 AM
Bob Roddis said...: Does anyone understand what Egmont Kakarot-Handtke is saying? He sure has zero familiarity with or understanding of Austrian concepts and analysis. Which isn't actually that unusual.; May 6, 2018 at 10:13 AM
Bob Roddis said...: Also, from this Tom Hickey post, we learn what’s “Wrong with Libertarianism” where one author concedes that EVERYONE understood post 1989 that Mises had been always right and socialism had failed.

From page 408 of the Jeffrey Friedman paper:

In the new, post-1989 intellectual landscape, Cornuelle noted, IT IS NOT SOCIALISM BUT THE REDISTRIBUTIVE, REGULATORY STATE THAT COMMANDS ALLEGIANCE. IN THE 1920S AND 1930S, LUDWIG VON MISES DEVELOPED A CHALLENGE TO THE ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF SOCIALISM THAT WAS FINALLY, AND SUDDENLY, ACCEPTED AS SELF-EVIDENT IN 1989. With the collapse of communism, however, what is at issue between libertarians and everyone else is no longer the value of a market economy, but whether the market should be “closely watched and guided” by “democratic political institutions...and a welfare or service state with a broad charter to keep the society fair and fit for human habitation”(ibid.,365). Cornuelle pointed out that this was a debate libertarians would find much tougher going than the debate over socialism.

https://tinyurl.com/y7xboa5u

So, we have an admission that socialism failed and always will fail while Mr. Friedman is clueless about how the interventionist regulatory state is the CAUSE of our problems.

The left's rehabilitation of Marx and socialism is much like how the Deep State and media respond to questions about Obama's Ukraine Nazis and support for Al Qaeda in Syria. Silence and lies. Perhaps gaslighting is the appropriate term.; May 6, 2018 at 10:32 AM
Bob Roddis said...: The Jeffrey Friedman article which DeLong linked to is on page 408 here:

http://www.criticalreview.com/jf/11%203%20libertarianism.pdf; May 6, 2018 at 10:34 AM
Calgacus said...: Does anyone understand what Egmont Kakarot-Handtke is saying? He sure has zero familiarity with or understanding of Austrian concepts and analysis. Which isn't actually that unusual.
J. Barkley Rosser over at http://econospeak.blogspot.com says what Egmont Kakarot-Handtke is saying is trivial and well-known. I tried but found EKH impossible to understand, because he won't define his stuff well enough, and he makes incomprehensible claims about how one can't combine the business and household sector into a private (or non-government) sector. As if there were a natural law about adding two numbers.; May 12, 2018 at 3:45 PM

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