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To: Borges
Locke's materialist philosophy can be traced to Marx

Marx was born in 1818, over a century after Locke's death. If Locke was a materialist, it had nothing to do with Marx's influences, or those of those who immediately influcencd Marx, notably Feuerbach and Hegel.

38 posted on 05/28/2009 8:39:10 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

I phrased my statement badly. I meant you could trace Marx’s thought partially to Locke.


40 posted on 05/28/2009 8:40:57 AM PDT by Borges
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