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My philosophy is "Give unto Marx what is Marx's, give unto God what is God's." Marx's ideas have value in the sphere of social science, economics, and the study of history. In fact I will say that in those spheres, I view Marxist ideology as being scientific. When I analyze economic or political trends, I try to map it to Marxist theory.

When people try to extend that to say religion, where Marx's argument is that humanity's relationship with God is some sort of "export of creativity" ala what happens when the artisan becomes a laborer, you lose me. And attempts to map Marxist ideology to other realms of science (like Lysenkoism) have failed disastrously, just as mapping say evolutionary biology to social science was a disaster. (And no, sorry leftists, but epigenetics do not mean Lysenko was right). But that's not Marx's fault. His theory has its place, and as long as is it kept there, I accept it.

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>No modern economist of any prestige believes in the Marxist theory of value
Plenty of serious academics in China do so.
>The Economic calculation problem (how socialist dictatorships decide what gets built, produced or made, without free markets)
It seems that for now, the market is indeed how such things are done. Cybernetics are a long way off, and I doubt it will ever happen. But China's economic model is worth studying.

>inb4 "Leftist!!!"
I literally believe in God.

The only thing that works for me when it comes to NoFap is movies and TV. Watching them, writing about them, talking to people about them.