Deaf ears
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-03-17Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 9 →
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Thus, it has come about that for decades not only has socialist economics preached to the deaf ears of the propertied classes, but bourgeois economics, to the extent that it once was a real science, has done the same. Unable to comprehend the teachings of their own great forebears, and even less able to accept Marxist teachings which flowed from them and which, moreover, sound the deathknell for bourgeois society, the bourgeois professors serve up a tasteless stew made from the leftovers of a hodge-podge of scientific notions and intentional circumlocutions - not intending to explore the real tendencies of capitalism. On the contrary, they try only to send up a smoke screen for the purpose of defending capitalism as the best of all economic orders, and the only possible one.
Forgotten and forsaken by bourgeois suciety, scientific economics can find its listeners only among class-conscious proletarians, to find among them not only theoretical understanding but also concomitant action. The famous saying of Lassalle is applicable first and foremost to economics: 'When science and the workers, these two opposite poles of society, shall embrace, they shall crush in their arms all social obstacles"