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> ad hominem fallacy It's not ad hominem to judge a critic's own track record in order to measure the weight of his words. Otherwise we'd end up listening to a
by nickpp 3y ago
> ad hominem fallacy
It's not ad hominem to judge a critic's own track record in order to measure the weight of his words. Otherwise we'd end up listening to any little trust fund ideologues with no actual idea about how the world really works, like Marx.
- thiagoharry 3y agoWhether you like it or not, Marx is one of the most important philosophers from XIX century with important contributions to politics, sociology and economy.
- nickpp 3y agoI never said he wasn't important. So was Hitler, btw. Marx's sick ideology just killed more. But I am glad you consider that an important contribution.
- thiagoharry 3y agoNo, Hitler was no relevant philosopher and had no widely recognizable contribution to the mentioned areas. It's a pity that ideology prevents people to discuss or even to understand other people's ideas and contributions.
- malermeister 3y agoWe should be listening to Marx in these times.
- nickpp 3y agoAnybody who tried has starved to death or needed a bloody revolution to get rid of their dictator and his nomenklatura.
- malermeister 3y agoLike Allende, who was democratically elected and then couped by the CIA?
- nickpp 3y agoPlenty of communist experiments ran unimpeded (a few are even running right now) and they pretty much all had the same predictable miserable ends. Oh, and to address your earlier point: > you fine fellow serfs have made this a fertile land for discussion Yes, the community is where the value is. But we all congregated here and not on some free and open-source place somewhere else on the Internet. So there must also be some value added by the creators and maintainers of this place, value we recognized and built upon.