The well-worth reading Ryan Cooper trolls me: Ryan Cooper: It’s time to normalize Karl Marx

The well-worth reading Ryan Cooper trolls me: Ryan Cooper: It’s time to normalize Karl Marx: “For elite American economists, Marx has long been viewed as absolutely anathema, if not some kind of demon…

…producing an enormous taboo against seriously considering or even mentioning his ideas. Back in 2006, liberal Berkeley economist Brad DeLong jokingly sneered his book Capital would “introduce serious, permanent bugs into your wetware” (that is, your brain), and therefore reading it “should only be done by somebody with immunity to the mental virus — by a trained intellectual or social or economic historian, or by a trained neoclassical economist.” In other words, the best person to crack the dread tome is someone who is already a committed right-winger…

Ima not going to rise to the bait. But you can read what I really wrote a decade ago, if you wish…