Marxist Exploiters

[Koolay]

Economics is social, it is about predicting human behaviour, and you kind of need to be in it to understand it. It's not like studying an inert landscape like the sea.

But everyone already IS 'in economics'. It doesn't matter much if you're a free-wheeling capitalist thug, or a planned-market socialist drone: as long as you produce and consume, you're 'in economics'.

That being said, one doesn't need to be a free-marketeer to understand the free-market, or a socialist to comprehend socialism. The notion that one has to experience something in order to understand it is - on offense - utterly insane. If that were the case, then no society could punish a criminal offender, no one could appreciate music, and so forth.

Boru

Oh come on, being a consumer does not make you knowledgeable in the business you are consuming. Otherwise we would all have equal knowledge to Apple just by using their products. I think you are just grasping at straws here, since this seems really obvious.

You can understand it, but you certainly are no authority in it unless you have years of experience to make you an expert in that field.

It takes an expert to realise when someone else is an expert. For example, an expert surgeon will recognise a really good surgeon, whereas I, obviously could not appreciate the skill of the expert from a regular surgeon.

Marxism is the guardian angel of capitalism. We know from history and the present that both ideologies are harmful and show no genuine concern for human life, nor any human society.
Capitalism threatens people with communism, communism threatens them with capitalism.
A strong national economy regulated by an authoritarian government is the way to true prosperity and humane living conditions.

I'm sorry, but how is Capitalism a threat?

Government and voluntary trading are two polar opposite moral states. I can't pretend that the government who bombs and encages millions upon millions is morally equivalent to Starbucks, or Wal-Mart. Last time I checked, they are not knocking on my door with guns asking for half of my income.

And if you are going to say an authoritarian government leads to higher living standards, prove it. Otherwise you are just trolling.