On 13/01/2020 04:20, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Died age 75,of cancer.

€œIt is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of
intellectuals to believe it,...the fact that it is not a truth-directed .€�

Sir Roger Scruton


Utter nonsense from Sir Roger Screwtape there.

The reason Marxism is such an enduring set of ideas is only that it
provides a model and a language for describing historical changes that
continues to be true and useful. For anyone who doesn't know it, in the
simplest terms Marx's fundamental idea was that the primary thing that
drives history on, that changes society, that creates the irresistible
currents that we are all subject to and that it is vain to resist is not
religion or God, not wars and armies, not great men of destiny, not
ideas, not compassion, not darwinian struggle, not any of those
secondary factors but economics. It's about wealth and the way that
wealth is created. It's how we all see the world whether we think we are
marxists or not, and stupid of TNP and a dumb second rate lecturer to
imagine otherwise.

TW