Posted on 07/14/2005 12:10:33 PM PDT by 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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"One should not underestimate the influence of the communist lecturers in Oxford and Cambridge."
The "intellectuals" always make the mistake of thinking that they won't be murdered once they help convert a country to communism/marxism. They are generally the first ones to be lined up against a wall.
What credence would you give a poll taken of the airhead listeners to DeadAir Amerika???
I rest my case.
Nothing here. Time to move on (no pun intended) ...
A lot of people in America forget or don't know that the British Labour Party of Tony Blair is STILL a member in good standing of the Party of European Socialists AND the Socialist Internationale. Blair just repackaged British socialism by applying the marketing label "NEW" Labour to it, like new and improved Crest toothpaste, its still just toothpaste.
Cambridge-Oxford is like Harvard-Yale in socialistic teaching...but times 10.
Or John Locke?
These voters are people who obviously believe that the philosphical basis for democracy is worth nothing compared to the philosphical basis for slavery, mass starvation, and deprivation of fundamental rights (ie. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness).
Fascist beasts!
Someone anti-Freeped that poll.
The Guardian is leftist, even for Britain, isn't it? You can tell Bragg is a lefty, he has too much hair...and it's nicly coiffed .
Melvin?
Well it IS a philosophy, I guess.
The despots DUped and DUmped on the poll.
Try a higher number.
Stalin did that all by himself. Don't forget Mao, Pol Pot, and all the others.
Courtesy of the University of Australia philosophy department.
Immanual Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out consume Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato they say, could stick it away Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene' Descartes was a drunken fart "I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed A lovely little thinker But a bugger when he's pissed
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Marx was a third-rate hack, even by the standards of the humanities and social sciences. He was an intellectual lightweight by any measure.
No university on Earth would permit an adherent of the Flat Earth Society to teach its astromony course. Why, oh why, do universities let, nay, require disciples of the socio-economic equivalent populate their faculties? How many times does marxism have to be shown to guarantee failure before we can put a stake through its destructive heart.
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