How is marxism and comunism viewed by the academia (economy and political science)?

how is marxism and comunism viewed by the academia (economy and political science)?

communism if under the rule of a perfect being would obviously be best

since we dont have perfect beings to rule us, we have to settle with democracy and all of its circular retardation

>confusing communism with dictatorships like an uneducated little bitch

A walking, talking meme with a PhD.

>how is marxism and comunism viewed by the academia (economy and political science)?
It's not taken seriously by any real economists.

do anyone on the mainstream academia take it seriously?

who takes that shit seriously?

>implying there is a difference
eat shit friend

>who takes that shit seriously?

If you mean Marxism, only sociologists and other humanities faculty. Many of them mean well, but Marx's theories about the economy ended up not being very good.

do any of them has any power to take another country into that path of self destruction?

I ask because I'm colombian and live near venezuela.

>who takes that shit seriously?
Europe

European countries are social democracies. They're still capitalist. Most of them are pretty nice places, as long as they don't decide to ruin it with Muslim immigrants.

Venezuela is also a social democracy. It's just been incompetently managed.
>do any of them has any power to take another country into that path of self destruction?
I don't know what you're trying to say.

We had 60 years of marxists guerrillas doing terrorism here.

It's pretty natural I'm biased against marxist crap.

I don't think socialism will work as well as capitalism to develop a country, disregarding the violence inherent in socialist revolutions.

I think the best thing that could happen for Latin America is probably drug legalization.

There are quite a few socialists in academia from my experience, but not so many Communists or Marxists. The communists and some of the socialists I've talked to agree though that a communist revolution will be inevitable when the class gap has become too large, and while I agree, that will most likely be long after our lifetimes, if things get worse. Social democracy serves us just fine for now though, compared to all the alternatives, including communism (or what we have witnessed as an extreme example of communism/stalinism, like the USSR).

It's about 50/50. I wouldn't call Spain, Greece, etc. good countries. They're definitely shittier than the US. There are some countries where life's better that the US (Norway, Finland, etc.), but they don't characterize Europe.

Is not viewed seriously by economists, but economy is a meme science.
It is viewed seriously by sociologists, but they're even worse.

Sure. I think the US could enact many policies similar to Norway and Finland and have it work well. They're actually more business-friendly than the US in many ways.

And this is on Veeky Forums why?

economy and political science are part of academia.

also non retarded pol answers.

>People are flawed, this is why we need mob rule
?

This is the science and mathematics board, not the academia board.

economy is a science.

>huh duh is not

Huh duh it really isn't.

its a body of knowledge within socio-eonomic philosophy. modern economics and political science is in the mindset of creating and falsifying theories empirically