The establishment vs Uber

[kandrathe]

I stopped reading the moment after he wrote "In one important sense, Marxism is a religion". This is a discredited claim usually made by trolls. A pity really, cause he had my attention before that.

"I am confronted by an idea with which I disagree. Therefore, I stop reading, and discredit the author."

-Jester

Edit: I notice that this is the second sentence of the first chapter. I take it you mean Schumpeter had your attention for all of ten seconds before you found something you disagreed with, and could therefore consign him to the dustbin?

The antithesis of university study is to confine ones knowledge to only a narrow point of view. Of course, it reinforces a fear I have that our universities have become shrines of Narcissus filled with professors reflecting on the beauty of their own ideas.

To read an author with no thought of criticizing the work, is senseless. To criticize the writing with no thought of reading it is much worse.

I guess it is one reason my imagination returns to the caricature of Che t-shirt wearing Marxist revolutionary wannabe, who's learned to parrot the popular lines enough to fit in, but has no interest in understanding the foundations of economic thought nor debate their merits.

Maybe one would start by reflecting on the life and transformation of perhaps the leading American Marxist, Paul Sweezy. Of course, Sweezy was a Marxist who has read and understands Schumpter... Why Stagnation? by Paul Sweezy, Monthly Review