Disappointingly, David Hume failed to win Radio 4’s Greatest Philosopher poll. Although the man he lost to – Karl Marx – was a political and economic theorist rather than a philosopher, which makes Hume the real winner…
SIAW, despite its flaws, neatly skewers the idiots who think this is a Terrible Thing because Marxists killed a bunch of people. In short: no they didn’t. Murderous peasant bastards clad in a thin shroud of Marxist rhetoric but with precisely 0 genuinely Marxist policies killed a bunch of people.
True, but it is a Bad Thing that Marx won, though.
True to an extent. It would be wrong to blame to tar all Marxists with the same brush. But there are clear weaknesses in Marx’s ideas that helped create that situation. A perversion of Marxism it may have been but key weaknesses made it easier to exploit.
And yes, I think it is a bad thing that Marx won.