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>>18793318
with Smith and Ricardo liberals were on board with a scientific (materialist) understanding of political economy. after Marx however this line had to be abandoned in favor of subjectivism and marginalism, starting with Marshall
if Marx is wrong then feel free to, using data from the real world, refute the predictions made by Marxist economists. that's how science advances
modern bourgeois economics is akin to theology as >>18793376 points out. for example during the entirely predictable 2008 crash people working in economy departments here in Sweden had to talk in private amongst themselves, not discuss the situation openly, because they were all freaking out about how their oh-so-accurate """theories""" turned out to be bunk
the function of bourgeois economics is not to explain the real world but to uphold the status quo