I want to know if anyone frequents any good forums in the tradition of marxism that would be the equivalent of the Mises forum. I would like to start posting “behind enemy lines” and brush up my debate skills. Don’t get me wrong, I love you guys, but I think it would be interesting to start debating tue marxists, instead of hearing about debates with them second hand here in the Mises forum.
I did a quick web-search but nothing much came up. Where do you guys go when you’re looking for trouble?
“equivalent of the Mises forum” - Ha. You can go to RevLeft for some lulzy debates, but it’s pretty pathetic and frustrating at the same time. One of the mods here was banned and labeled “Misean” from their forum.
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“equivalent of the Mises forum” - Ha. You can go to RevLeft for some lulzy debates, but it’s pretty pathetic and frustrating at the same time. One of the mods here was banned and labeled “Misean” from their forum."
I tried making a post there. I think it got denied because posts are moderated. But its ridiculous what people will say. 
You could try debating at the Forums of the Libertarian Left. I’m not sure they’re very much Marxist, but they are our “cousins on the left”. Also, they are most likely to respond in snarky yet ambiguous one-liners. In my experience. I tried! I did! They didn’t help me.
Well, you know what they say, spending time on leftrev is only as bad as snorting chlorophyll lined with rat poison.
After recommendation on multiple occasions by one of our more determined trolls, one of our members here ventured over to ArsTechnica and invited a few other folks along.
This is the closest I’ve seen to what you’re looking for, but obviously they’re dumb enough to buy into a lot of fallacies, so you will get plenty of posts severely lacking in even basic logic. But for the most part it seems as though they’re able to string sentences and don’t immediately feel the need to resort to insults and ad hominem.
However, be warned. It’s probable you’ll get more responses than you bargained for, and keeping up with threads may become a problem.
Give us some followup reports. I’ll be interested to hear how it goes.
Now, before I talk about some other places, one of the things I like about this forum is how lenient the mods are to opposing viewpoints and only seem to ban the most obnoxious of trolls and even then they have to get like sociopathic-level annoying to warrant a ban. ’
Even the “vehicle name[insert numbers here]” dude that’s made like his fifth alt; yeah he’s kind of a trolly troll but it’s always useful in my opinion to read what he types up. Users like that are useful to this forum and I’d rather keep them around then censor them.
Most forums flip the fuck out and go all Kristallnacht martial law on people, essentially doing the internet version of stringing them up in the town square with their heads impaled on sticks.
So yeah, other places…
eh, it’s less about the forum and more about the individual person you come across that would be willing to debate you imho
“it’s less about the forum and more about the individual person you come across that would be willing to debate you imho”
But somehow the annoying, stupid, and argumentative ones always find you…
You probably can’t find any because Marxism is dead.
Which is why I am always suprised to see articles promoted on mises.org attacking it. Hardly seems worth the effort of even mentioning.
The forums at libcom are decent. They also have a great library of Marxist and anarchist texts.
only seem to ban the most obnoxious of trolls and even then they have to get like sociopathic-level annoying to warrant a ban. ’
Tell that to Smiling Dave.
Where do you guys go when you’re looking for trouble?
I debate with the Progressive’s on another board that isn’t politically related. I’d suggest that. That way you get to debate, you don’t get banned and you can chat about other stuff.
Could you suggest a specific board that you like to go to?
Where do you guys go when you’re looking for trouble?
The bad neighborhoods in town -_-
Ironic how FOTH posts right after an assertion that Marxism is dead.
Not to mention that our president is a Marxist.
Idk about Obama’s personal beliefs, but most economists do not bother with Marxism. When confronted about something related to the Occupy movements they might say “we need more regulations” and just move on.
You probably can’t find any because Marxism is dead.
It’s well and alive at most American universities, and seems to be successfully crafting future gravedigger propagandists who attempt to reanimate its corpse over and over and over again
It might just be the the second best Useful Idiot doctrine for the political elite after Keynesianism, in its lust for centralized power, and the remarkable sophistry it uses in its defense.
Not to mention it’s arguably the most warlike ideology of all time with its use of divide et impereta.
Re: “Obama is a marxist”: Lol no, but his rhetoric thus reinforces my Useful Idiot point above; he and Bush and presidents past must be rolling in laughter at all the little foot soldiers who unwittingly rationalize DC’s power with their ceaseless faith in godlike government planners who will cure all.
“It’s well and alive at most American universities,”
I think that if Student is saying that it’s dead then he’s going to have a very different opinion about this too.
I go to rapisalive.com. Every once in awhile debates pop up, the last one being on abortion then got derailed to global warming. If you go there to just debate you may just get labeled as a troll and banned. I would sugget going somewhere that caters to your interests. Most boards have a lounge area to shoot the shit. If you do that you can debate and discuss other things that interest you.
“It’s well and alive at most American universities,”
I think that if Student is saying that it’s dead then he’s going to have a very differing opinion about this too.
While its economics have been refuted, it’s just reestablished itself in all other areas of discourse, especially cultural disciplines where every study has some form of Marxoid flavor. The underlying desire has not gone away; they’ve only been rationalized and repackaged in ‘new’ avenues for its apologists.