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Basically during the cold war there was also a battle in the realm of ideas, both sides arguing against each other.
There are many works criticizing Marxism in various aspects, but when it comes to criticize its methodology and its predictions my favorite is Karl Popper, who was a physicist and laid out the foundations of modern critic rationalism in his “logic of scientific discovery” book.
In his book “the open society and its enemies” Popper makes the argument that Plato ideas have been a big part of totalitarianism through history, specially Hegel and Marx bu extension.
He dedicates a lot of time to dissect Marxism methodology and state why it is flawed
He also wrote another book on the problem of marxist, and fascists , prophecies “The Poverty of Historicism”.
You can also read John Rawls “Theory of justice” and Amartya Sen “Development as a Freedom” for two takes on how to think about equality and freedom beyond marxism.
Hanna Arendt also touches on the problems with marxist totalitarianism.
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Basically during the cold war there was also a battle in the realm of ideas, both sides arguing against each other.
There are many works criticizing Marxism in various aspects, but when it comes to criticize its methodology and its predictions my favorite is Karl Popper, who was a physicist and laid out the foundations of modern critic rationalism in his “logic of scientific discovery” book.
In his book “the open society and its enemies” Popper makes the argument that Plato ideas have been a big part of totalitarianism through history, specially Hegel and Marx bu extension.
He dedicates a lot of time to dissect Marxism methodology and state why it is flawed
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Society_and_Its_Enemies
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59272
He also wrote another book on the problem of marxist, and fascists , prophecies “The Poverty of Historicism”.
You can also read John Rawls “Theory of justice” and Amartya Sen “Development as a Freedom” for two takes on how to think about equality and freedom beyond marxism.
Hanna Arendt also touches on the problems with marxist totalitarianism.
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