Hey y’all! Here we are reading and discussing Sections C.1-C.1.1 of AFAQ this week! We still take it slow, so we might do C.1 (and C in general) in a slower pace until we start to catch up again.

Edit: Here we are reading and discussing Section C.1 of AFAQ the following 4(!) weeks! We are taking it slow until we start to catch up again. I will update the title each week and I will re-ping you here each week.

Happy reading!

There is also an EPUB version of AFAQ, courtesy of @[email protected]: here

If you’d like to join, please comment and we’ll ping you next post.

Link to last week’s read: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55295947

PS. Feedback request: How did you find last week’s reading pace? Fast/Slow/OK/etc.?

  • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzOPEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Umm near the beginning it says:

    Instead it is, to a large degree, deeply ideological and its conclusions almost always (by a strange co-incidence) what the wealthy, landlords, bosses and managers of capital want to hear. The words of Kropotkin still ring true today:

    This is the key problem with economics: it is not a science. It is not independent of the class nature of society, either in the theoretical models it builds or in the questions it raises and tries to answer. This is due, in part, to the pressures of the market, in part due to the assumptions and methodology of the dominant forms of economics. It is a mishmash of ideology and genuine science, with the former (unfortunately) being the bulk of it.

    When it says that it is not a science, does it refer to neoclassical economics (or capitalist economics in general)? Because I feel like in the whole section it criticizes neoclassical economics.

    EDIT: OK, after some talking in the matrix space I concluded that it refers about capitalist economics and in some parts it refers to neoclassical capitalist ecnomics in particular. After all, the title of the section C is “What are the myths of capitalist economics?” :))