Jay Hanson wrote,
> . . . Marx required angelic robots for his utopia . . .
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> . . . Marx's grand hallucination wound up in the trash can . . .
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Jay,
Both of the above statements have about the same degree of scientific
validity as would a claim that Tammy Faye Bakker wrote the New Testament.
It's one thing to claim that the natural sciences are superior to the human
sciences in their methodology. It's another thing entirely to launch
uninformed, unsubstantiated and emotional attacks against the latter.
It's ironic that you have apparently swallowed a huge dose of the vitriol
manufactured to smear Marx over the past half century by the defenders of
the corporate mass consumption way of life that you profess to detest. You
also apparently take at face value the self-serving appropriations and
distortions of Marx by bureaucratic totalitarian regimes. One thing is
clear: you haven't bothered to check out those misrepresentations for
yourself by studying Marx's work.
You would no doubt be surprised to learn that Marx's writing has influenced
your own arguments more than you could ever dream. A crude map of the
intellectual trajectory from Marx to Hanson passes through Thorstein Veblen
and M. King Hubbard. Be careful when you condemn something you don't
understand -- it may turn out to be part of yourself.
Regards,
Tom Walker
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