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I saw that reddit did a post on this and I found this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/fg66vc/what_do_you_guys_think_about_mises_economic/
Where the top comment begins with…
“The way Mises formulated the problem has been debunked, as Mises argued that it is impossible to economically calculate prices at all in a socialist economy since there is no exchange. He does not consider the possibility of the socialist economy setting internal prices, not as an expression of market value, but as an expression of alternative options in order to move resources between enterprises. For example, five bananas might be an alternative for three apples, and to keep things simplified and consistent, an internal price is assigned where five bananas = $1 = three apples. Theoretically, through enough data and math equations, a socialist economy can possibly calculate efficient prices…”
So this would be state capitalism?
Also, quite stupid: the video is a tiktok video lol.
I suppose in terms of “Libertarian Marxism,” I have a few influences:
Firstly, I believe Marxism, as an ideology is much more widespread and applicable than people believe it to be. Even non-socialist ideologies like social democracy emerged from a more “reform > revolution” conception of Marx’s writings. In fact most of left-leaning politics, from what I’ve read, emerged from Marx. I’m still undecided to an extent whether I am a full-on anarchist or not, I would need to read more on the subject. But essentially, I believe in the teachings of people like say, Chomsky, Luxemburg, CLR James etc. Also, I believe one can be a Marxist without being a Socialist; in fact I believe most left-leaning people, even liberals, would agree with many of Marx’s thoughts on capitalism itself; they simply disagree with the alternative and come at it from a more reform-perspective; that’s irrelevant though, since I am a socialist.
However, I don’t believe the problem itself is applicable in terms of anarchism/libertarian socialism; it’s mainly a critique of centralisation, which is why I was coming at it from that perspective.
