• “When you make a contentious claim and someone asks for a source that’s them doing a logical fallacy”

    Ultimately, I will get told I don’t understand economics until I’ve read all three volumes of Das Kapital. Ironically, it’s no different that libertarians saying you don’t understand economics unless you’ve read the works of Milton Friedman, or more importantly, Ayn Rand.

    Okay, except as part of the background of growing up in the imperial core youre already exposed to their ideology so you don’t need to read it. You’re not really exposed to Marxism here and you need a background to understand it.

    I agree capital isn’t the best starting point but for some reason anti-communists love trying to argue economics when they know nothing about economics, so thats when capital generally gets brought up and its become a meme from that.