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Reply To: Cost of living crisis

October 2026 › Forums › General discussion › Cost of living crisis › Reply To: Cost of living crisis

May 14, 2023 at 10:05 am #243385
chelmsford
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It is Engels who comments on the ideas of Ricardo and Mill. Beginning of chapter 34 and page 680 of the Pengiun addition.
What they say is very much like the SPGB understanding of inflation, and Engels rubbishes it.
The SPGB argument is woefully wrong, wrong, wrong!

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