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In reply to the discussion: Believe it or not: Karl Marx is making a comeback [View all]clarice
(5,504 posts)"Taking a dollar out of your wallet and using it to pay for some bread is not what constitutes the "free-market." You could just as easily align such an act with the stamping of a ration card for bread. Which is the action of taking the allotment which has been assigned to you by some other driving force. "
What is the force I am speaking to? It is the self-interest of the ruling class. Capital is produced by the worker, is taken away, and an allotment of this capital is gifted back to the worker for his or her effort. Therefore, what constitutes the price of goods and services and the value of labor, in the form of wages, is the ruling class itself. That is fundamentally not what is dictated according to "free-market" philosophy."
I'm sorry but this reads exactly like what the egg headed professors at Smith College tried to pass off as
"economics". The collective mentality is what lead to all of those deaths. I never trust an ideology that has to be enforced at the end of a gun.