Thread 512021280

The concept behind Communism is that it's labor which provides value and therefore all the means of production should not be privately owned. But they get wishy washy with labor - in actual fact an hour of all the kinds of 'labor' don't provide equal value. They want to design uniforms and march people into the camps or whatever, teach praxis. But it's the people building and operating the steam shovels and nuclear spaceplanes who provide value. Farmers and robo-prompters.

Commies can't refute this and labor theory of value is the lynchpin that holds their entire ideology together.

>>512021280 (OP)
The real problem is the belief that value is objective.

>>512021384
It's a fact, not a mere belief.

>>512021556
There's no material evidence that anything has inherent value, regardless of who produced or how or for how long or what effort was expended in doing so.

>>512021829
>There's no material evidence that anything has inherent value
None? I don't agree.

>>512021854
Why?

it, like capitalism, views man and woman simply as a value in economic units.

>>512021894
Because it's silly.

>>512022029
I naively thought your answer might somehow include evidence, but of course you have none, which reinforces my point.

>>512022151
You made a claim, not a point. And it's a shaky one.

>>512022294
Why?

This argument hinges on a misunderstanding — and misrepresentation — of the Labor Theory of Value (LTV) and Marxist thought more broadly. Have a good day.