The only people shrewd enough, intelligent and determined and hard boned enough, to actually pose economics as a problem of regulation and actually understand the dynamics of the thing they are regulating, is the Chinese communist party.
I know, in their hearts, that’s what a lot of the more educated, more intelligent, shrewder Western left would like. Thanfully, they don’t have the heritage of a 100 years of starvation and insanity that the communists in China have, so they aren’t hard boned enough to get it done.
In my experience, there are two and only two kinds of leftists.
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People that have feelings and haven’t looked into the claims made by left or right. It is forgivable to believe the claims of the left before looking into them, to believe the stance of the left corresponds with the real world before checking, as the real world precedes thought and there is no reason thought should a priori correspond with how things actually are. I used to be this kind until, no thanks to your fancy Universities, I started looking into the claims one by one. Guess what there was a totally unexpected and unfailing 100% rate of?
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Actual communists. These are hardcore people that I respect and admire, and are my enemies. Very few of those actually around (enough to make ass puppets of the first kind).