#+title: WTF Is Marxism? Dialectics Shake the World | Mortal Science
- tags :: [[file:../marxism.org][marxism]]
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- Derrick says that the thing that unties Marxists historically is the [[file:../20210310111947-labor_theory_of_value.org][labor
  theory of value]]
- Ezri says that if you hold that [[file:../20210204095739-socialism.org][socialism]] is just a form of managed
  capitalism, then you must think of [[file:../20210310112141-exploitation.org][exploitation]] in a different way than [[file:../20200611202011-marx.org][Marx]]
  did
- Ezri says that [[file:../20200810223639-dialectical_materialism.org][dialectical materialism]] is, broadly, a [[file:../20210310112616-philosophy_of_science.org][philosophy of science]],
  not just social phenomena
- [[file:../20210310113839-dialectics.org][Dialectics]] have been around since ancient Greek times as a means of
  argumentation, [[file:../20200720100117-hegel.org][Hegel]]'s innovation is that he turns it into an ontology
  + Hegel's dialectics only works on ideas because for Hegel ideas are the only
    things that are real
- What is unique to capitalism is reinvestment and wage labor i.e. labor as a
  market
- The business cycle appears once you get industrial production
- Derrick remarks that a lot of state activity is the battling between various
  factions of the bourgeoisie rather than class antagonisms
- "Communism is the removal of [[file:../20200716140724-alienation.org][alienation]] from the productive realm"
- Classical dialectics is about creating definitions from a description or
  discussion so as to move to axiomatic logic