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  • favoring the big bourgeoisie and upper middle class( Republican party) and the big bourgeoisie and middle to lower middle class or petty bourgeoisie (democrats)

    From the outside my perception of the American parties has always been the opposite from this: the Republican is the party of what’s left of the American industry, agriculture and small business owners, with its protectionism and wars to conquer new resources, while and the Democratic is the party of the big bourg financial oligarchy with its NGOs, favouring illegal migration, trade deals, and wars to conquer new markets.









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    When I say Shaikh ‘compares’, I actually mean ‘destroys marginalism and keynesianism with facts and logic’ :P —though he still takes what’s valuable from them and writes in an almost neutral tone. It’s a great book because it gives you all the vocabulary you need to understand what the neoliberal pawns on TV actually mean with what they’re saying.

    He also has video lectures based on the book posted on his website.

    Regarding econophysics, it’s a current of drawing parallels between political economy and thermodynamics, foreshadowed by Marx with his ‘quantity to quality’ calls to Hegelian logic and most notably developed by Farjoun and Machover’s 1983 book ‘Laws of Chaos’. I like it, probably because I’m a physicist.


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    If you want an actual textbook there’s Anwar Shaikh’s ‘Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises’, a very thorough graduate level book that explains and compares marginalist, keynesian, and classical (marxist) economics. Shaikh’s theory of price and money is more nuanced than Cockshott’s, and he develops mathematical models of competition based on classical political economy essentially from the ground up, as in, he doesn’t assume much prior knowledge.

    Cockshott himself also has a book called ‘Classical Econophysics’ that’s a literature review of several currrents in modern Marxist economics. I’d recommend it if you want a shorter work.