(also by the by, you can accept a Marxist critique of capitalism without accepting a Marxist blueprint for the solution. The (very) basic premise that capitalis

(also by the by, you can accept a Marxist critique of capitalism without accepting a Marxist blueprint for the solution. The (very) basic premise that capitalism is a machine for accumulating power in ways that allow one to distort the market simply because of the way that return on capital works, and the results of focusing on maximizing extracting value from human labor is pretty straightforward and, in my mind, pretty easy to demonstrate empirically at this point.