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  • Owl [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Do you think Xi JinPing received a PHD from reading Das Kapital over and over again?

    No? Who said I think that?

    Xi JinPing can cite theory that's less than 100 years old, so he can call what he's doing science.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        You're reading an awful lot into what I said that isn't what I said. I was complaining about people who've only read Marx and Lenin then go around shouting down every other idea because it contradicts an "immortal science" that the person doing the shouting is not engaged with.

        You’re asking for a sort of new universal Revolutionary Science when the foundational solution has remained the same since Marx’s time

        I mean, the analogy was Marx to Einstein. Nobody's thrown out that foundation either, even if we've found better ways to explain it since then.