If Marxism is a science, then it must be testable and falsifiable. At least, that's my understanding of the scientific process. It's why Freud for example is considered unscientific. This theories have a lot of wiggle room, where any result can be turned into a proof or explained away.

Isn't this what we do with the various leftist projects? I don't know, I'm just confused why it is called a science and not, like, philosophy.

  • PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Thank you, this clears a lot of things up. One quote from what you linked that really helped was:

    Marx denies that the value of commodities is determined by the labor actually spent on them; it is rather the labor necessary to produce them in a socially average way that determines their value.

    I had always read that a product isn't a commodity unless it is socialy useful and can be exchanged but I was still unclear of its implications and how it refutes this mechanical idea of value.