Wittgenstein, Marx, etc.

[Shane Mage]

>>Justin said:
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>>>Wittgenstein was a product of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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>>And worked for most of his career in England. Maybe I should have also
>>claimed Marx and Engels for liberal democracy on the same grounds, so I
>>will. They surea s hell couldn;t have done what they did on the 
>>contintent....

By what conceivable standard  was the British Empire c.1850 a
"liberal democracy" but pre-Nazi 20th-century  Austria was
not?


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