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Marx Voted Top Thinker By Brits
The Guardian ^
| July 14, 2005
| Charlotte Higgins
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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I guess Thatcherism has reached its halflife. One should not underestimate the influence of the communist lecturers in Oxford and Cambridge.
To: KingofZion
Didnt they vote Homer Simpson as the greatest American?
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:11:41 PM PDT
by
grondram
(The problem with the middle of the road is that you're passed on all sides and likely to be runover.)
To: KingofZion
In a shock result... Not.
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:11:46 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: KingofZion
Karl Marx, his philosophy has only killed 60 million people...
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:12:19 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
To: KingofZion
OMFG...30k votes?? Why that DEFINITELY speaks for all of the brits, huh?
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:12:21 PM PDT
by
Stellar Dendrite
(FAKE conservatism is more dangerous than liberalism <<<---at least you know what you're gonna get!)
To: frogjerk
You're off by 40 million.
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:13:00 PM PDT
by
Stellar Dendrite
(FAKE conservatism is more dangerous than liberalism <<<---at least you know what you're gonna get!)
To: KingofZion
Melvyn Bragg. Gawd. You used to be able to find piles of his books in Soviet bookstores.
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:14:29 PM PDT
by
Snake65
(Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!)
To: Stellar Dendrite
I have no idea who Melvyn Bragg is - that audience may not be representative.
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:14:35 PM PDT
by
grondram
(The problem with the middle of the road is that you're passed on all sides and likely to be runover.)
To: Stellar Dendrite
I stand corrected.
Karl Marx, his philosophy has only killed 100 million people...
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:14:40 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
To: KingofZion
Greatest ever philosopher?
Do Socrates, Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, or Hume ring any bells?
They've got to be joking...
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:15:11 PM PDT
by
mike182d
("Let fly the white flag of war." - Zapp Brannigan)
To: frogjerk
"Karl Marx, his philosophy has only killed 100 million people..."
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:16:18 PM PDT
by
Stellar Dendrite
(FAKE conservatism is more dangerous than liberalism <<<---at least you know what you're gonna get!)
To: KingofZion
If they are going to go with an economist, how do they not go a little closer to home-Adam Smith ? WTH?
IIRC, when Churchill lost his election, parliment broke into a chorus singing some commie anthem.
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:16:52 PM PDT
by
MattinNJ
(Allen/Pawlenty in 08-play the map.)
To: KingofZion
All this means is that the most vocal listeners of "Melvyn Bragg's Radio 4 show In Our Time" are primarily socialists.
Guys, if you had a poll of Air America's listeners, don't you think it would be the same result?
To: KingofZion
That's the craziest thing I've ever heard!
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:17:41 PM PDT
by
evets
(You're welcome.)
To: evets
And we thought American education was awful!
To: KingofZion
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:19:05 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: evets
Correction:
That's the craziest thing I've eva hoid!
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:19:10 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
To: KingofZion
"Marxists organised a mass vote; they're much more organised than Hegelians, for instance."
Or Republicans or "The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" (I and we should be so lucky as to be so organized or vociferous).
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:20:05 PM PDT
by
garyhope
(moules et frites)
To: KingofZion
...good job on the anti-American, socialist, mad, sacred cow. 30,000 votes is quite a sampling.
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:20:09 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
To: grondram
In unrelated news 27.93% of British citizens are found to be complete morons who know nothing about philosophy.
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posted on
07/14/2005 12:20:26 PM PDT
by
Stag_Man
(Hamilton is my Hero)
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