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To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com cc: (bcc: DANIEL DAVIES) bcc: DANIEL DAVIES Subject: Faith and science
> The philosopher Karl Popper embodied that attitude. We can never
>prove that our theories are true, Popper argued; we can only disprove
>theories, or falsify them.
Which is as good a cue as any for my Reduced Shakespeare Company summary of "The Open Society and its Enemies":
1. Marxism is wholly unscientific because it is unfalsifiable.
2. Not only is Marxism unfalsifiable, it has been proved wrong.
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