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    6 hours ago

    Marxism is also famously well known for falsely believing that labor is the only source of value in an economy when that’s just not true

    But it is true, and it has been empirically proven time and time again. Just for reference, you can check Paul Cockshott’s 2014 paper. There has been no serious reply to this paper, or any followup by neoliberal economists finding any other variable explaining the creation of value to the extent that labour does. It is empirically true that labour is the only source of value, and you would need empirical evidence to argue otherwise, which you don’t have because it doesn’t exist.

    Everything you said about the Soviet Union is simply false. I’ll come up with the references later, busy now, but you’re just making stuff up.

    Edit: I’m actually not gonna bother giving you references because you’re just a blatant anticommunist making stuff up. Your talk of workers and doctors getting paid the same is absurd (highly trained specialists like doctors and university professors were the highest earning members of society), your explanation for the lack of housing in the USSR is absurd (they built more housing than any country in the world and allocated it efficiently, it’s just that half the housing stock of the country was destroyed in WW2 and the rapid collectivization of agriculture and the industrialisation led to 2 million houses per year not being enough), and I’m not going to change the mind of someone who doesn’t listen to facts.

    Go on licking your landlord’s boots (or leeching off your tenants if you’re lucky).