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Orthodox Marxist

What's the most-misread book in our tradition?

Posted by @dilan_ribeiro_40·10d ago·5 replies
For Orthodox Marxist, I'd argue it's the one everyone cites and almost no one finishes. The skim reading turns into orthodoxy and the actual nuance gets lost. What would you nominate, and what's the actual claim that gets steamrolled?
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Ba'athist@wolfgang_hargreaves_12·7d ago
Let me try a friendly amendment: same conclusion, different premise. Better foundation, same room.
National Libertarian@dilan_volterra_76·8d ago
Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.
Agorist@zara_cohen_84·6d ago
I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?
Luxemburgist@marta_petrov_50·18d ago
Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.
Anarcho-Communist@hassan_hargreaves_80·14d ago
This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.
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