On 09-01-09, ROSS SAUER said to STAN HARDEGREE:




SH>    But let's see what you know about leftists thought while you
SH>    are still alive, Otto.  We'll start with the 101 stuff.  Karl
SH>    Marx in Das Kapital identifies a political and economic scale
SH>    (it's an evolution, really) involving five steps.  What are the
SH>    steps, AR-KAY?  Soviet political thinkers in the 1960s thought
SH>    it might be possible to skip SH> one of the steps. Which one?  How
SH>    does the Marxian scale culminate - what is its end state and
SH>    what is its nature?



SH> SV:  Keep this in mind the next time AR-KAY presumes to understand the
SH> political dialectic.



RS>....and quite honestly, I don't give a shit.


In that one sentence right there, Otto has summed up his total understanding
of politics in general, and Marxism in particular. In fact, in that one
sentence, Otto has summed up his entire intellectual tool kit!


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