Posted: 7/13/2005 7:02:56 PM EDT
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Marx voted top thinker Charlotte Higgins Thursday July 14, 2005 Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5238542-103690,00.html In a shock result, Karl Marx has been voted the greatest ever philosopher following a poll by Melvyn Bragg's Radio 4 show In Our Time. In the public's poll, which assessed 20 philosophers, Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, got 27.93% of the 30,000 votes. In second place came David Hume with 12.67%, followed by Ludwig Wittgenstein with 6.8%. Plato trailed in fifth place and Socrates at eighth. Andrew Chitty, who, at Sussex University, teaches the UK's only MA in Marxist philosophy, said: "This shows that philosophy should take Marxism seriously. It is possible he won because Marxists organised a mass vote; they're much more organised than Hegelians, for instance. "But I think it's more likely that people understand that in this increasingly capitalist world Marx gives us the best vision with which to understand that world. Marx talks about capital in a philosophical way - he's unique in that." |
| AS i said before. The "guardian" is a very radical left wing british newspaper. everything they say is left wing propaganda. They had a political cartoon in it comparing jihadists with american and british generals sayin that they both indiscriminately attack and kill civilians in cities. And that they're one in the same. |
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They ARE kidding, right? No, seriously? |
Not sure what distinction you are trying to make...........CBS.................... |
I wonder what other philosophers they chose..........Plato, Aristotle, Descarte, Jerry Lewis? 
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"1 vote for Jerry Seinfield....." "1 vote for George Carlin....." "1 vote for Stalin....." 
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I bet the frigging commies didn't even put Dennis Miller as a choice
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"Uggh.......4 votes for David Hasselhoff" 
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