If evolution had been known all along...

[FrostyBoy]

I am speaking of Gutenberg's Printing Press, the one that revolutionized the world.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Comrade Snuggles

Originally posted by Barnabas
And you don't think it takes a lot of faith to believe in Marx's predictions for the future of mankind? Commies have their own "end of times" and "paradise" faith based concepts.

The "predictions" of Marxism are based on scientific analysis and history.

Seriously Chegitz, it's based on hegelian dialectics, which is profoundly metaphysical.

Which of course does not discredit them - it only shows that metaphysics can be valid...

[Kidlicious]

Marx's predictions aren't any worse than anyone elses.

[BKWM]

from evolution to marx, that's bad people

[Elok]

Originally posted by Kidicious
Marx's predictions aren't any worse than anyone elses.

No, a lot of other people's predictions actually came true, and not in a self-fulfilling prophecy way. Just off the top of my head, Churchill's "they had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor; they shall have war."

And now that I said that, somebody's going to dig up the quote and tell me it's apocryphal.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Elok


No, a lot of other people's predictions actually came true, and not in a self-fulfilling prophecy way. Just off the top of my head, Churchill's "they had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor; they shall have war."

And now that I said that, somebody's going to dig up the quote and tell me it's apocryphal.

That one was too easy, and you are a show off.

[Elok]

You want non-easy predictions? How about Alan Turing's? Or do those not count either?

[Kidlicious]

I'm not familiar with him. Predictions regarding the economy are in order though.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
Seriously Chegitz, it's based on hegelian dialectics, which is profoundly metaphysical.

Which of course does not discredit them - it only shows that metaphysics can be valid...

Hegel's dialectics are indeed metaphysical, because Hegel was an idealist philosopher. For him, the dialectic was the clash of ideas. Marxist dialectics, however, are based on the processes of the world: time, change, chaos, etc. Remember Marx's famous quote about standing Hegel on his head. One of the main thinkers of Chaos theory, Ilya Prigogene, in the 1970s credited Marxist dialectics as a precursor (by about 100 years).