Marx Voted Top Thinker By Brits

The Guardian ^ | July 14, 2005 | Charlotte Higgins

[KingofZion]

In a shock result, Karl Marx has been voted the greatest ever philosopher following a poll by Melvyn Bragg's Radio 4 show In Our Time. In the public's poll, which assessed 20 philosophers, Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, got 27.93% of the 30,000 votes. In second place came David Hume with 12.67%, followed by Ludwig Wittgenstein with 6.8%. Plato trailed in fifth place and Socrates at eighth.

Andrew Chitty, who, at Sussex University, teaches the UK's only MA in Marxist philosophy, said: "This shows that philosophy should take Marxism seriously. It is possible he won because Marxists organised a mass vote; they're much more organised than Hegelians, for instance.

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[the scotsman]

Also, if we are being really pedantic, semitic dosent pertain only to Jews.

[trisham]

I’m not even slightly surprised.

[familyop]

"Also, if we are being really pedantic, semitic dosent pertain only to Jews."

There's not much of Shem in raging Arabia or envious Rome (even New Rome). ...much of Ham, though.

[familyop]

And if semitic (meaning: of Shem) were to pertain to language (which it does not) as argued by anti-semitic academics, then the language of Shem has been around for much longer than claimed by Canaanites (Phoenician Europeans). Ishmael’s mother was descended from Ham. Rome has obviously married in much with descendants of Ham.