Marx famously said that Adam Smith’s theory of the “three sources of revenue” (labour, capital, and land) had “as little to do with one another as lawyer’s fees, beetroot, and music”. They were not only on different levels of abstraction, but got mixed up in a hellish cocktail of aporia, presuppositions, tautologies, and self-contradictions. Something so fundamentally wrong that these concepts could not only not explain wealth in capitalist society, but mystified it. And mystification is the air, water, sun and soil that capitalist society thrives on.

Mystification, blending different levels of abstraction, and bad theorising more generally is the hallmark of neoliberal, and with it, leftist thought. As the Covid regime has shown, if pure propaganda is added to the mix, humans will live at the mercy of tyranny that the left, so called ‘progressives’ who speak entirely from the pit of murder they call a heart, have constituted.

Indeed, the acceptance of the Covid narrative, the willingness to adapt, to submit, are an expression of the inability to recognise the real enemy. They are simply and little more than the consequences of a lack of class consciousness.

This little Substack is dedicated to Marx’s legacy in going back to his understanding of a critique of the mystifications of capitalist, and today, neoliberal societies.

Thanks for reading and stay based.

Elena

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