Phil Magness has spent the last several days being inundated by leftoid sneed after publishing a paper in a top econ journal, the Journal of Political Economy, demonstrating that positive citations and overall academic influence for Karl Marx skyrocket after 1917, when the Soviets seized Russia, and that this effect is robust relative to a synthetic control (a standard modern econometric test). Despite their frequent sneering jibes against "muh free marketplace of ideas," Twitter leftoids took this as a grave affront: surely Marx must be so influential because he's a unique giga-brain genius who won out on sheer intellectual brilliance! Jeet Heer, John Ganz, and Jamelle Bouie have all taken turns seething at Phil over this, along with many others - Phil's Twitter timeline is a goldmine of sneethe, if you care to dig in.
Economist Demonstrates Marx Was Launched by 1917 Russian Revolution; Twittards and Marxoids Screech, Cope, and Seethe
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No shit? Obviously once he was proved the first (and so far only) commie writer who's ideas weren't just wind he's going to get a lot more backing and support for doing so.
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Then get off your high horse and actually read some of his work before you make such stupid, ignorant statements.
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The fact that he's been given a second chance to prove himself only furthers my theory that the real reason he's getting sacked is because of his old tweets.
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