It is a dream of mine that one day, some libertarian bozo will tell me to my face that I should read Milton Friedman.
I got the "Why don't you try something a bit different and read Road to Serfdom?" Gave it an honest effort. Made it maybe a chapter and a half, before I had a notepad full of "Wtf is this shit?!" Took it to the guy who recommended it (incidentally, my then-girlfriend now-wife's father) and proceeded to ask him "Wtf is this shit?!" Couldn't get any kind of sensible response out of him. Dude had skimmed it.
My brother, if you're going to be a conservative at least do your fucking homework.
I also grew up sheltered and privileged and that libertarian pro-capitalist ideology lasted about 5 minutes once I was exposed to the real world and how thing actually work.
Absolutely my vibe. I've seen life from both sides now. Up and Down. And here's what I've found. :amerikkka: :hammer-sickle: :marx-joker:
Looking back on it, it's just amazing to me how shallow Road to Serfdom and the like are. None of those Austrian economists go beyond the superficialities of capitalism. I have told a literal capitalist that if anyone wants to actually understand capitalism - even if you think capitalism is great - they should read Capital vol. 1. I genuinely believe no bourgeois economist before or since has been able to so thoroughly dissect capitalism as Marx does there.
I got the "Why don't you try something a bit different and read Road to Serfdom?" Gave it an honest effort. Made it maybe a chapter and a half, before I had a notepad full of "Wtf is this shit?!" Took it to the guy who recommended it (incidentally, my then-girlfriend now-wife's father) and proceeded to ask him "Wtf is this shit?!" Couldn't get any kind of sensible response out of him. Dude had skimmed it.
My brother, if you're going to be a conservative at least do your fucking homework.
Absolutely my vibe. I've seen life from both sides now. Up and Down. And here's what I've found. :amerikkka: :hammer-sickle: :marx-joker:
Looking back on it, it's just amazing to me how shallow Road to Serfdom and the like are. None of those Austrian economists go beyond the superficialities of capitalism. I have told a literal capitalist that if anyone wants to actually understand capitalism - even if you think capitalism is great - they should read Capital vol. 1. I genuinely believe no bourgeois economist before or since has been able to so thoroughly dissect capitalism as Marx does there.
:marx-goth: