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Resurrecting Marx

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The collapse of socialism didn't deter the Marxists, who moved on to invent new rationales for their system. But David Gordon has caught up with them, and used the knife of the Austrian School to cut their theories to pieces. A masterful demonstration of philosophical technique. The book in particular addresses the arguments of the analytical Marxists: G.A. Cohen, Jon Elster, and John Roemer.

The contents of this volume include:

Introduction
The Classical Marxist Assault on Capitalism
The Analytical Marxist Rejection of Classical Marxism
Analytical Marxism versus Libertarian Rights
Cohen on Proletarian Unfreedom
The Socialist Alternative
Conclusion

ISBN 0887383904
155 pp. (hb)

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by Patrik K.
on 5/28/2009

Great Book

Economics cannot be looked at empirically because unlike natural sciences, it is a soft science.
Keynesianism provides tons of empirical data, but it is still witchcraft. As far a Marx is concerned, he was a vulgar individual who tainted a movement of working people (unlike Charlie) which sought to reap the fruits of their labor.
(i.e. the social-democratic party of sweden having been opposed to excessive taxes in its infancy)

by AJ Witoslawski
on 3/2/2009

A Refutation of Analytical Marxism

Many of us know that Hegelian dialectics are patently absurd. Since dialectics are the basis of Marxism, we may deduce that Marxism is more than likely to be equally absurd. Analytical Marxists, however, have combined real logic and Marxism into a formidable ideology that eschews some of the more erratic Marxist theories like the labor theory of value.

David Gordon does much to destroy this new synthesis of logic and Marxism. One way that Gordon attacks Marxism is by showing how all forms of Marxism - whether state socialism, stateless communism, or some kind of worker democracy hybrid (e.g. "council communism") - actually result in GREATER "proletarian unfreedom" than capitalism. In all of these aforementioned systems, the individual worker is subject to some kind of central plan - whether it is of the state, of his fellow workers, or of society in general. Under capitalism, though, the worker has greater freedom to choose between jobs and occupations than under any central plan.

by P
on 2/22/2009

silly Austrians

"But David Gordon has caught up with them, and used the knife of the Austrian School to cut their theories to pieces."

The knife of the Austrian School is an absurd, unsubstantiated economic theory whose adherents reject providing empirical proof. No wonder they are largely ignored in academia. When the Austrian School actually has something with which to combat the empirical proof of the Marxist analysis of capitalism, then we can begin talking about the "knife" of the Austrian School.

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