Re:What harm do minimum wages do?
by throwaway894345 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:31PM
(#24215984)
You're making a motte/bailey argument, but either way it doesn't look good for the 'Marxist'.
If a Marxist is one who says "Capitalism is imperfect; I've got a gut feeling that there is a better system out there, but no idea what it looks like concretely", then that may be correct but it's close to worthless.
If a Marxist is someone who says "Capitalism is imperfect; the state needs to fix the price of $X (labor, etc)" with no mention of the economic feasibility of said price-fixing, then that's better but still far from persuasive.
My criticism was directed at the latter. There are perhaps many good Marxists who make convincing economic arguments; I'm asking for more of this.
If a Marxist is one who says "Capitalism is imperfect; I've got a gut feeling that there is a better system out there, but no idea what it looks like concretely", then that may be correct but it's close to worthless.
If a Marxist is someone who says "Capitalism is imperfect; the state needs to fix the price of $X (labor, etc)" with no mention of the economic feasibility of said price-fixing, then that's better but still far from persuasive.
My criticism was directed at the latter. There are perhaps many good Marxists who make convincing economic arguments; I'm asking for more of this.