tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post7055759973042215439..comments2024-03-28T17:08:15.784-07:00Comments on Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left: Engels’ Failed Prediction of Revolution in the UKLord Keyneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-10596880849106789932015-12-21T06:05:42.971-08:002015-12-21T06:05:42.971-08:00Exactly. Politics is rarely about policy.Exactly. Politics is rarely about policy.Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976919713907046171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-52943282000229003122015-12-20T15:57:36.038-08:002015-12-20T15:57:36.038-08:00Modern Marxists don't really care about moving...Modern Marxists don't really care about moving towards a supposed communist "Utopia" to liberate the poor, if they did they would drop the bad textbooks and instead want the government to invest practically every cent into technological research to achieve post-scarcity, which is probably the only way such a society would be attainable. <br /><br />It's just a way to look down your nose at people with silver bullet economics.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17973580598290240182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-58749776351342184222015-12-20T11:58:16.177-08:002015-12-20T11:58:16.177-08:00(5) you've taken it out of context!!!
(6) you ...(5) you've taken it out of context!!!<br />(6) you lack "nuance" in your interpretations of what he said. <br />(7) Marx didn't say it, so it doesn't matter.<br />(8) even if false, it doesn't matter because Marx was 100% infallible.<br />(9) you must be a fascist or Nazi. Or a racist. Or an imperialist. Or a fascist Nazi racist imperialist. You also lure people into your ginger bread house and eat them.Lord Keyneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-10953845898061120882015-12-20T11:08:14.756-08:002015-12-20T11:08:14.756-08:001 he never said it
2 he only meant it as a teachin...1 he never said it<br />2 he only meant it as a teaching aid<br />3 it's true ontologically not empirically <br />4 it only applies non-contiguously<br />Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08207803092348071005noreply@blogger.com