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That’s nice, Steve. :rolleyes: Except life and science and PHILOSOPHY are not all about electrical engineering. Not even close. Maybe you somehow missed that. But you are welcome to your impoverished world view. I know at your age it’s hard to learn new stuff.

As @bilby noted, the intellectual infrastructure for the broad enterprise we call science was laid by philosophy. Now you might say that science has become completely separate from philosophy, but that is not true. As the aforementioned Norman Swartz (and more notably Einstein) said, bare data...

Exactly.

The stateless, classless society Marx envisioned may not be possible. But the dictatorship of kleptocrats of the Soviet Union and China was definitely not what he wanted.

Maybe so, but the point is that Soviet Russia and Communist China were not remotely what Marx envisioned.

No, it did not. :)

The Marx/Engels idea was that the state would “wither away.” Did the state noticeably wither away in Soviet Russia or Communist China?

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 anything to do with … Marxism? :unsure:

Marx on the civil war (Marx and Lincoln corresponded): — Karl Marx Up late and babbling online because illness has disrupted normal sleep patterns. :confused:

— A. Lincoln

I live in NYC, the capitalist king of the world, notwithstanding its reputation for alleged liberal politics. Every morning I step over people sleeping in the street. Capitalism, baby!

All philosophy, the very thing you say you disdain. What makes you think the Soviet Union and Communist China of that era had anything to do with … Marxism? :unsure:

OMFG, are you serious?? :ROFLMAO: Income INEQUALITY in China is greater than in the U.S. Unregulated cowboy capitalism is worse than communism. But again, this is off topic.

The rapture happened, we just did not notice. That’s because the South African pastor is the only who made it. That’s why no one has heard from him. He is in Jesus’s loving arms now. :love-struck:

Yeah, Plato, Aristotle, Hume, so many others, all boogy-wah, sitting around and talking about nothing. :rolleyes: “Plato, pass the tea and crumpets please, and what were you saying about ideal forms? It is so INTERESTING!” As it happens, Max Tegmark, a modern physicist, is also a mathematical...