I don't particularly like economics but I feel like if I wanna articulate a communist vision for the future I need to be able to counter the 1 Billion dumbasses who took econ 101

What are some good resources to start learning?

  • drinkinglakewater [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I've watched a few of Wolff's lectures and find them a little repetitive , does he have any deeper stuff on Democracy at Work or youtube?

    • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Some of his YouTube stuff is decent, but Capitalism's Crisis Deepens is snack sized essays that might be more useful.

    • Posad_al_Assad [any]
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      4 years ago

      Paul Cockshott has a nice youtube channel for presenting a deeper analysis of Marxist economic theory than many of Wolff's Democracy at Work videos and expounds more on the labor theory of value, the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, and the "transformation problem."

      If you're interested in a very in-depth comparative theory analysis, I'd recommend Wolff and Resnick's Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Also agree with WhatAnOddUsername's suggestion to try to familiarize yourself with mainstream economics as well. Khan Academy's free courses appear to be far more tolerable than what I had to endure in my introductory micro and macro classes from my Koch brother-funded undergraduate econ program.