I’ll also add that a simple definition for a scientific theory, is something that is :
Based on observable phenomena
Makes predictions about the future
Those predictions are testable / falsifiable
Those predictions are borne out by observation
All of the core tenets of Marxism: The labor theory of value, the declining rate of proft, surplus value, class struggle, historical materialism, as well as those of Marx’s successors, who applied the Marx’s materialist method to wage successful revolutions and bring millions out of poverty, meet all the criteria above.
I also recommend watching Cockshott - Why the labor theory of value is right to get an idea of how Marx applied the scientific method to human labor time (something that’s conserved like any other scientific principle, no matter how many times bourgeois economists, like priests, tell you value can be created and destroyed in thin air).
Also this video on why the supply-demand curve, the basis for bourgeois economics value theories, is unscientific and unfalsifiable.
@CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml nailed it, and its especially worth reading that Lenin essay they linked, as well as :
I’ll also add that a simple definition for a scientific theory, is something that is :
All of the core tenets of Marxism: The labor theory of value, the declining rate of proft, surplus value, class struggle, historical materialism, as well as those of Marx’s successors, who applied the Marx’s materialist method to wage successful revolutions and bring millions out of poverty, meet all the criteria above.
I also recommend watching Cockshott - Why the labor theory of value is right to get an idea of how Marx applied the scientific method to human labor time (something that’s conserved like any other scientific principle, no matter how many times bourgeois economists, like priests, tell you value can be created and destroyed in thin air).
Also this video on why the supply-demand curve, the basis for bourgeois economics value theories, is unscientific and unfalsifiable.