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as I already said for the average KB fan profile elsewhere, general points are the most stupid things in the world.

no I am not eating some broccoli, it makes you fart

I must have missed the part of Capital in which Marx calls upon workers of the world to eat broccoli.

Seriously, though, this is based on a sample of less than a hundred people, so it's not to be taken seriously. The pleasurable take-away is that we're all respectably far-left, in the terms of contemporary representative democracy, in which being far-left doesn't imply much at all aside from a general attitude of scepticism towards neoliberalism.

Hello! I Just got an account and I can say that I am indeed a communist, so that's at least one more data point

Thank god the sample size is only 27--as of this posting, from the link in the OP.

The other reason not to take this too seriously is that I doubt anyone responding in this thread appreciates what Communists were, are and wish to be.

Thank you Jordan. I asked as I need to know such things. I don't spend any brain-time with economics and I am not familiar with any formal anti-Keynesian efforts, though there is much anti-Keynesian opinion expressed in my moribund, Capitalistic country.

phratry?

That's not my response to the content. You've sent me to the dictionary!

And, I believe, my head is spinning because you are using words tied to concepts that I know have been a result of the socialized, medicine-non-market that was post WWII Britain.

Can you appreciate how these terms have been twisted?

Would your head explode if I introduce two words?

Supply

Demand


"neoliberal market imperialism"

I think I have read a very insidious attack on free market Capitalism.

A critique of the ideology of Smith's invisible hand. There is no invisible hand, there are many powerful and visible hands.

oh god i miss your posts Alex

I do know what you mean, of course. What I said was that the thing you're calling human nature doesn't exist; or, at least, it's certainly not common to all humans, and it certainly has nothing to do with nature.

I do know what "does not exist" means, I can assure you.

It's the relativist in you who can't acknowledge the variation: how can there be "human nature" with all the variation in human behaviour?

It's very simple really, as simple as counting 1, 2, 3. It's called the normal distribution and bell-curve for the general shape of the graphical representation of the distribution.

The normal distribution that you refer to is grossly skewed in favour of Western Europeans in the last 250 years. It is not a normal distribution at all, it is a treatment of global history as if it consisted exclusively of French and British history from 1750 to the present day. The title "The Road to Serfdom" says it all: there is a clear and explicit concern to link the definitive political dichotomy of late modernity to that of all pre-modern eras (i.e. the vast majority, by literally a hundred thousand years, of the human past).