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Hah, it's interesting to see my comment cause some controversy on HN :-) I'm not saying social scientists are pro-Stalian or other suggested nonsense in some c
by Moodles 8y ago
Hah, it's interesting to see my comment cause some controversy on HN :-)
I'm not saying social scientists are pro-Stalian or other suggested nonsense in some comments. I'm merely saying that, compared to every other subject, it is shocking to me that such a high proportion identity as Marxist as it is a relatively extreme political belief. It seems analogous to a high proportion of biologists being creationist. In fact, almost every single social scientist is left wing. That and 80% of humanities papers being sent into a vacuum never to be cited again, suggests to me that there is a crisis.
- silveroriole 8y agoMaybe the idea that a high proportion of social scientists end up describing themselves as Marxist should make you reconsider your view of Marx, rather than dismiss the social scientists as equivalent to creationists?
- jobobgo 8y agoThis is a fallacy of majority. Most people also believed the Earth to be the center of the universe. Marx got the labor theory of production wrong. He blames the capitalists for unjustly acquiring the "means of production" and uses that as an excuse for violently stealing and murdering those people. He would literally insist that you must have stolen for someone because you have a successful 1-man blog earning lots of money. His argument is that it is nit the capitalist (blog writer) that is responsible for profit.... but the ISP, computer manufacturing factory workers, etc. And from there would support stealing what you earn because you must have exploited somebody to gain wealth. Pure evil class hatred
- genericid 8y agoThis is nonsense. To start with, a capitalist is someone who employs and exploits a worker. A 1-man blogger (or a 1-man anything) does not employ anyone.