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"Muh Soviet in a supermarket" story in 2023? My comment was also about McDonald's in the USSR, so they're feeling super exceptionalist over fast food slop.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Communist theory is thousand page tomes. Liberal theory is a series of unverifiable anecdotes.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Excuse me but Harry Potter is not an anecdote.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There is actually a pretty sizeable corpus of liberal philosophy and theory, but it's not really meant for the average non-bourgeois lib, especially since those types of guys are generally pretty uncurious and operate mostly on vibes (and propaganda)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

All the important foundational liberal economic theory was written before or during Marx's lifetime and Marx tore it to shreds. He dedicates tens of thousands of words and dozens of citations to discussing Adam Smith alone, and he actually kinda likes Adam Smith. All liberal economics since Marx has been lame attempts at repudiating or obfuscating the existence of surplus value, or class in general.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I see you've not lost your touch.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

No wonder liberal smuglords like the "TL;DR" thought terminating cliche so much. smuglord

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

yo this mf spittin straight fire you should write some books