Oh, god, I really want to stop talking about him, but I just can't resist:
People often don’t realize it . . . but Marx was in many ways working in the tradition of classical economists like David Ricardo and Adam Smith.What people, Matt? You and Glenn Beck?
I hope Harvard got the check up front.
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Don't blame the eedjit stooge who just learned how to jump through hoops and now has his dog biscuit.
He was just being a good little blimpy-dog.
Who wants to fire him? His bosses approve of his "thinking," and the rest of us enjoy the show.
This is the most perfect Yglesian moment. After all the problem is less that he's ignorant than that he is convinced that everyone is as ignorant as he doesn't know he is. I can easily imagine him writing up a whole long blurg post about how while you doubtless didn't know this, pi is actually the ratio of circumference to diameter, a very useful bit of knowledge and let me tell you all about why Michael Pollan should know that eating french fries all day isn't good for you and what Nobel Paul overlooks in his latest highly technical paper on labor markets is BLAHGKFDJSNDFS
And notice the zeitgesty use of 'destablilize'...as if a popular uprising of highly sophisticated technology will destabilize american labor's interests or something
He's a mole, getting paid as an "adjunct" in Yale's Cayman Islands "extension program".
-- sglover
But seriously I think one of the important functions of the king's court of pundits and new york times columnists is giving the rulers the impression that they're not as stupid as they worry they might be.
I thought he learned economics from Hegel
And here's the thing: This line IOZ selects is actually the least stupid sentence in the post, the rest of which purports to locate the concept of "human capital" in David Ricardo and to the most asinine explanation/"history" of economic polarization I've ever seen.
I've read that Marx's thought demonstrates strong influences from:
* Hegel's dialectical method and historical orientation;
* the classical political economy of Adam Smith and David Ricardo;
* French socialist and sociological thought, in particular the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henri de Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier;
* earlier German philosophical materialism, particularly that of Ludwig Feuerbach;
* the solidarity with the working class of Friedrich Engels.
Engels was an aristocrat. He had servants and stables full of horses. He also bankrolled Marx's career. Your last item seems to suggest otherwise.
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Yo, John, check out the K-Marx wikipedia entry and you will get why our resident ph.d. has just won the thread.
IZZY, you are so obviously deeply hawt for the Yglesias bod. Just think what you could do with just one of the deep, moist, slippery creases between his rolls of Hawvawd-educated blubber.
You know you want it. What else could explain your MY obsession?
here, let me google that for you.
So, when is he going to explain to us poor saps about the relationship between the protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism?
Marx!! Pffft! What does he know? Even he doesn't address the fact that if you don't let your kid play with his peepee, he's gonna go psycho on you, your country, all of humanity...
Mathew is merely insane like the culture that created him. But this is why intellectuals are so respected.
Engels had stables full of horses.
And Marx was a hell of a thoroughbred.
And Jimmy the Greek had something to say about thoroughbreds, but it got him fired.
Legs Diamond said "Fuck em all except for six, and save those for the pall bearers" but I don't think it got him fired or anyting like that.
Lots of people have never heard of David Ricardo, so I agree with Dawson.
Also, a question for Dawson. Are you the same person as the blurb-provider on Venkatesh's "Off the Books"?
The classic formulation of Marxism is English political economy, French socialism, and German philosophy. At the time, English (or more broadly, British) political economy of the time was built upon Smith and Ricardo. If you want to be charitable, you could say that not many people know that, but if it's your job to know about the history of economics, you at least ought to know that.
John: Engels wasn't an aristocrat, and back then, being an aristocrat meant something. He was a capitalist -- he owned shares in factories.
Kids,
I've long joked that the day Matt discovers that when his wiener gets touched feels good or perhaps he likes touching boobs, or perhaps having his neckbeard stroked inappropriately, his Cliff Claven-esque inevitable "Hey guys, guess what!" post on the subject will be the deathbringer.
Agree with IOZ @ 12:56.
Wash the ball and tee it up Matty.
as ever,
The Real Donny
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