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I suspect the point was more that those who write articles like this one are borrowing heavily from communist ideas. If you aren't a communist, there's a good c
by etothepii 4y ago
I suspect the point was more that those who write articles like this one are borrowing heavily from communist ideas. If you aren't a communist, there's a good chance that you don't think that skills are capital and the rebuttal was along those lines.
- carlosjobim 4y agoThank you, yes that was how I meant.
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- pdonis 4y ago> If you aren't a communist, there's a good chance that you don't think that skills are capital The post I responded to (GGP of this one) said "skills are not capital in the communist vocabulary". Did you mean that if you are a communist, there's a good chance you don't think that skills are capital?
- etothepii 4y agoNo. My limited experience with the hard left at university is that those who call themselves communists today typically mean, "I'm against bad things like exploitation, I am for the weak against the strong, I am on the side of good. There are simple solutions to our problems." This can be summed up in Marx's axiomatic statement, "to each as he needs; from each as he can." It would have likely have been more accurate to say, "in the language of Marx skills are not capital." It would probably be more accurate for my comment to have been, "if you don't have the propensity to call yourself a communist you probably don't worry about whether or not skills are capital." This is because for me the common feature amongst communists (in a free society) is their belief in simple solutions, and unwillingness to engage with their unintended side effects.