Posted on 08/06/2005 6:19:16 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
Good point. As Loberfeld demonstrates, Marx wasn't particularly attentive to evidence and wasn't above falsifying it if necessary. Nor was self-consistency especially important to him (not surprising, of course, in a student of Hegel).
I also like kakistocracy, but I learned that one from KSFO radio. Lee Rodgers has been using that one for the last half of last week. Maybe from the same source.
The 1989 turning point took me by surprise as I expected the fall of the wall, but it makes sense. When even the kooladeyist ones of all find their beliefs cannot be practiced, it's over. Of course, they no longer remember that unpleasant reality...
Thank you so much. I was down at the courthouse driving a mental health client to an appointment the other day. The security guards were terribly rude, snickering and joking with each other and the police, but treating the visiting public like disease ridden cattle.
The police were also snarling, and I sat in a room full of people charged with petty crimes, things like prostitution. It occurred to me how little liberty is left, and how the elites have turned things upside down. Severe crimes go unpunished while the little people are contemptuously hunted down by motorcycle police seeking fines for traffic violations in unreasonably slow speeding zones. My wife, who drives very slowly, has been busted twice. One fellow in the room with me was a handicapped black man who had been busted, not kidding, for jaywalking in a construction zone.
The Marxists make the rule of law their god, and see to it that they alone can interpret and enforce what the law is. This is what guides the most noxious elites, the Kennedy's, Biden's, Clinton's, Ginzburg's and Suter's of the world. They believe they know best, because they are better than us, and thus entitled. They also make sure they are always very insulated from the rest of us.
In the old days wealthy people had a philanthropic side, a humanitarian side. Today it's more likely to be humanistic and collectivist. We are more and more substituting some elitist whim for needed laws and reforms. Canada is gone. The question is, will we follow them into oblivion?
Wading thru critiques of Marx are not first on my list of things to do. Nevertheless, thanks for bringing this to my attention. Where else would I have ever seen this?
Let's hope we can put the stopper in the drain before all of our water has swirled down it.
Wading thru critiques of Marx are not first on my list of things to do. Nevertheless, thanks for bringing this to my attention. Where else would I have ever seen this?
What? You mean you don't read critiques of Marx every Saturday morning from 8 to 11? What are you doing with your life, man?!
Great article and to think I might not have read it but for your admonition to read it twice. Heck, it's worth memorizing.
Great article and to think I might not have read it but for your admonition to read it twice. Heck, it's worth memorizing.
Good to hear.
Good to hear.
later
This is for those who think that junk science is harmless. Junk science should be outlawed. And Karl Marx was the original 'junk scientist' and humanity has suffer for over a century because of his lies.
I dislike simplistic theses like this one as they paint the political left with too broad a brush. Constant rehashing of New Left extremists like MacKinnon does not give one a realistic picture of the American manifestation of the political left, the Democratic Party.
Reference bump. Thanks Snarks
I dislike simplistic theses like this one as they paint the political left with too broad a brush. Constant rehashing of New Left extremists like MacKinnon does not give one a realistic picture of the American manifestation of the political left, the Democratic Party.
He used MacKinnon as a particularly egregious example, but didn't base his broader theoretical critique on her example. What did you think of his account of the tricephalic Cerberean Marx?
What frosts me is that contemporary marxism has taken stronger root and expresses more staying power in academia rather than among the laboring masses. Marxism basically defines the attitude paradigm among the West's intelligentsia, to wit: postmodernism and its stranglehold on the cognitive vanguard.
Yet here is an intelligentsia unable to analyse its own roots; it just accepts the marxist line with no critique whatsoever, evidencing a serious problem with hysteric denial, particularly among the sociologists and ethnologists who accept the idiotic conclusions of Engels on the nature of property arrangements among primitive societies, derived during the infancy of the science of anthropology.
Walter
To the landfill with it, then!
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