Really makes you think

Where does this myth about Adam smith brig a free market fundamentalist come from?

>if you aren't a subversive leftist, then you're necessarily baiting

This aren't your hugbox

From Milton Friedman and American Right-wingers during the late-20th century who were paid by big corporations to shill.

Most of these people have never read The Wealth of Nations.

This. Marx was really the inheritor of Adam Smith.

I have a feeling nobody here has read Smith. Well, I read all 1100 pages, and he's not what you would expect. One of my favorite passages is where is argues against the effects of the division of labor and in favor of government intervention of education:

"But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his minds renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life. Of the great and extensive interest of his country he is altogether incapable of judging; and unless very particular pains have been taken to render him otherwise, he is equally incapable of defending his country in war. The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, and makes him regard with abhorrence the irregular, uncertain, and adventurous life of a soldier. It corrupts even the activity of his body, and renders him incapable of exerting his strength with vigour and perseverance, in any other employment than that to which he has been bred. His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expense of his intellectual, social, and martial virtues. But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the laboring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless the government takes some pains to prevent it."

(Pg. 840 Modern Library Edition)

On the contrary, it's not your hugbox or your soapbox or your toilet

(you)

>Thinking Marx was in any way correct.

Sure glad the USSR, Communist china and Cuba propelled the working class to heights never before reached in western capitalist societies.

>inb4 "That wasn't real communism"

INVISIBLE HAND

You just have to forget the context he is using it in and misconstrue it for your own purpose!

>another thread of the left BTFOing the right liberals and /pol/zis

How many times must we repeat this before they learn?

How long did it take you to read the whole thing and would you ever recommend somebody writing notes on it? I would love to read all of it but fuck me is it long.

Sounds like an argument for fascism. I guess Adam Smith is alright and alt-right

your simply brainwashed, libcuck.

>marxism = communism

wew lad

they were communist societies, just not marxist ones.

>Sure glad the USSR, Communist china and Cuba propelled the working class to heights never before reached in western capitalist societies.
>Memeing so you don't realize you posted something that this is unironically true

>your

You can tell yourself whatever fiction you want but it won't actually make you feel better.

Captcha-- property calle

Top kek

I called it b-b-but it's not real communism

OP here, I am about 600ish pages deep, it is heavy reading. Haven't read that part yet.

No communist society has ever existed. If you knew anything about Marx, you'd understand that. Try actually reading his work some time.

> communism is a perfect utopia

we let communists try to reach their utopia
the result is horrible hell on earth

> but it wasn't TRUE communism because true communism is a utopia

fucking stop

Is saying they were marxist

is saying they were communist but not marxist

See the kowloon walled city and the state people would rather live in than in communist china. The best way to gauge how people feel is by the way they vote with their feet.

>fascism
what? this doesn't sounds like fascism at all really, remember fascism = more goverment intervention
you are not saying anything really, you sound like a generic sjw debater

I planned on reading the whole thing in 50 page increments to make it go by quickly, which is mostly what I did. If you do it that way it should take a little less than a month, which is how long it took me.

I took about 7 pages of notes, basically just long quotations that stood out to me and then did basic assessments of the implications. Honestly, I would only recommend reading the whole thing if you're interested specifically in Smith or the historical foundations of capitalism, not if you're wanting to learn about economics in general. Only read the whole thing if you want to really know what you're talking about. There are definitely some interesting passages to make it worthwhile though.

No.

>all of those inserted qualifications that prove you have no idea what you're talking about
>being a mental midget so hopped up on ideology that you can't read or think critically

Wow it's every single thread you shit-post on our board, great job with your life.

When two lefties make polar opposite statements about the same thing.

wew lad the state of the left