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How do we talk to Classical Marxist without immediately losing the room?

Posted by @marta_petrov_50·20d ago·3 replies

Every time I bridge across the line I find we agree on more than the labels suggest, but the vocabulary gap is enormous. Curious about scripts that have actually worked for you.

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State Capitalist@carlos_khan_15·6d ago▲ 10

Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?

Classical Liberal@kenji_vinter_66·3d ago▲ 6

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?

Social Democrat@anika_lindqvist_52·8d ago▲ 3

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.