Leftists destroy economies. Look at Argentina and Venezuela.
In other words, they’re communists.
Even after the 20th Century, and seeing all communism/liberalism has wrought, they return to it with enthusiasm.
Like a dog to its vomitus.
Marxists have never accepted economic reality. When you have centralized control of production and consumption, you don’t need economics. That’s their theory anyway. Of course history gives us abundant evidence of how well that works.
Well, yes, that’s because they’re Communists.
It doesn’t matter what they call themselves.
At some point in time the children of marx will need to be pointedly disciplined to understand that they are not in control of everyone else. The sooner they are told NO! The better. The longer their petulant wants go on the more their petulant violence will end up motivating the big spanking they so richly deserve. Just fyi.
These so called economists ignore the principle of the economic man and in doing so deny basic human nature. People will always operate in their perceived best interests.
Ideology trumps science in society at large. Let’s consider spontaneous order and how it is accepted.
Adam Smith saw spontaneous order in the free market. The Law of Supply, the Law of Demand, and the meeting of supply and demand lead to a market solution for price and quantity, known as market equilibrium. It sounds abstract, yet it is as real and true as F=MA (also abstract) in physics.
Outside of business reporting, it seems that no one talks about supply and demand. The news industry talks about economic consequences, but not about supply and demand. It’s like they don’t believe in it. They are about as “anti-science” as you can get.
Charles Darwin was influenced by Adam Smith. He saw spontaneous order in the marketplace and advanced his theory of spontaneous order in the origin and evolution of species.
On television evolution is accepted as dogma and free market economics gets the silent treatment. Why is that? The answer lies in ideology. Evolution has been used as a battering ram against religion. Free market economics threatens socialism.
The “religious right” has been attacked for decades in American journals, periodicals, T.V., movies, etc. By whom? By the atheist left. Similarly, the atheist left insists on evolution and smirks at free market economics. Others follow their lead.
Should one be consistent and accept, or reject, spontaneous order wherever it is advanced? I think you have to examine each case separately. I can do this and so can you. Having a conversation can be difficult given that we all grew up in a coercive environment. Talk to Joe Bloe and he know that one “must believe” in evolution. Likewise, “nobody” believes in free markets.
Solzhenitsyn said collectivism is an economic model that always ignores a vital component: human psychology.