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      pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
      That’s nice, Steve. :rolleyes: Except life and science and PHILOSOPHY are not all about electrical engineering. Not even close. Maybe...
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      pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
      As @bilby noted, the intellectual infrastructure for the broad enterprise we call science was laid by philosophy. Now you might say...
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      pood replied to the thread Define God.
      Exactly.
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      pood reacted to lostone's post in the thread Define God with Like Like.
      Marx did not anticipate that the his ideas would generate political states where the ideological elite that replaced his ruling class...
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      pood replied to the thread Define God.
      The stateless, classless society Marx envisioned may not be possible. But the dictatorship of kleptocrats of the Soviet Union and China...
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      pood replied to the thread Define God.
      Maybe so, but the point is that Soviet Russia and Communist China were not remotely what Marx envisioned.
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      pood replied to the thread Define God.
      No, it did not. :)
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      pood replied to the thread Define God.
      The Marx/Engels idea was that the state would “wither away.” Did the state noticeably wither away in Soviet Russia or Communist China?
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      pood replied to the thread Define God.
      Of course, what I asked was, and you did not answer was … What makes you think the Soviet Union and Communist China of that era had...
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      pood reacted to bilby's post in the thread Define God with Like Like.
      FTFY. Free markets have never really been tried, on any great scale, because they are unsuited to such government endeavours as...
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      pood replied to the thread Define God.
      Marx on the civil war (Marx and Lincoln corresponded): — Karl Marx Up late and babbling online because illness has disrupted normal...
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      pood replied to the thread Define God.
      — A. Lincoln
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      pood replied to the thread Define God.
      I live in NYC, the capitalist king of the world, notwithstanding its reputation for alleged liberal politics. Every morning I step over...
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      pood replied to the thread Define God.
      All philosophy, the very thing you say you disdain. What makes you think the Soviet Union and Communist China of that era had anything...
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      pood reacted to lostone's post in the thread Define God with Like Like.
      The problem with capitalism is that those luxuries that were once available to those 'average people' you cite are increasing out of...
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