So what do you consider to be a “Marxist argument?” Every time I try to talk with one of those left-wingers it’s like talking to one of those teenage personalities that have a desire to rebel and be a contrarian for no real reason.
Marxism is a defined school of thought based on Karl Marx’s work. Not every internet or classroom “left anarchist” subscribes to Marx.
Oh, I get it. The one I came up with isn’t something that would come from the point of view that the Marxist works subscribe to.
Marxist analyses are almost exclusively centered around class conflict as examined from an economic perspective. This follows directly from Marx’s philosophies of “historical” and “dialectic” materialism. An unofficial but almost universally true trait of the school is that it be extremely critical of capitalism, its stability, and its efficacy.
I’ve been thinking lately about exactly how weird talking to a Marxist is when coming from a mainstream or an Austrian/libertarian perspective. They see things in such an amazingly strange light that it’s sometimes hard to grasp how far off the focus of AE and ME are unless you talk to a Marxist for a period of time. I might write up a post about it later.
I think that this entire worldview might be a huge flaw in the Marxist perspective, that is to say that the entire way of thinking is fallacious (perhaps one can look back to Mises’ arguments about class, methodological individualism, and polylogism), and one that leads them to singular, anti-capitalist pro-socialistic conclusions. I’ll see how I feel when I look at the matter more closely.
An unofficial but almost universally true trait of the school is that it be extremely critical of capitalism, its stability, and its efficacy.
Interseting enough, Marx was one of the biggest praisers of capitalism.
There are certain ways of seeing or thinking how Marx’s logic can “work” - in so much as he is talking about a type of social inevitability, and not an “ideal” (for lack of a better term). I think both Mises and Schumpeter give him a certain type of credit for that, and it may be worth thinking about to some degree. However it is almost never worth it to talk to a frickin Marxist or radical leftist about.
You’re conflating conservatives with libertarian individualists. If conservatives were the way you say they are then issues like gay marriage would be non-issues.
a baby does not choose to be born into a society, so social enginering of society for the sake of the baby is silly.
why would a baby choose to be rich or poor, how does the baby discriminate value? “poverty” in one country is richer than the kings of the past.