[lbo-talk] The winner of the In Our Time Greatest Philosopher Vote

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Thu Jul 14 08:41:18 PDT 2005


[Mark Seddon of the Labour national executive committee had an interesting take on Marx's win in today's Guardian (below).

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" Marx, now freed from his flawed pupils, is as liberating as he was when he published the Communist Manifesto 150 years ago. ..."

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CB: Marx's test for himself as a philosopher is whether he changed the world. The main world-change Marx has made is through his pupils, especially Lenin and Leninists. Marx "freed" from his pupils is a failure by Marx's own philosophical standard.



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