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David Mo

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Then the world is full of pedestals. Seriously, it is very different to say "I think X is right" than to say "X is infallible in everything he says or...
September 07, 2020 at 05:34
It was a joke, We consider that the sky or the mountains are not really blue because we give priority to certain conditions in which we assume that ou...
September 07, 2020 at 05:30
No. I am atheist. If the perceived object is perceived by more than one sense (sight and touch, for example); has a sufficient duration (continuous or...
September 06, 2020 at 14:28
On the first question I do not have enough information about the history of the Chinese Communist Party. I am talking about the current Chinese Commun...
September 06, 2020 at 13:52
I don't know how time can be defined without reference to change, evolution or whatever you want to call it. I would like to know how you do it. Serio...
September 06, 2020 at 08:43
It is rhetorical. Because they limit themselves to generalities and avoid entering into the fundamental concepts of Marx's thought, which would leave ...
September 06, 2020 at 07:18
If you do not distinguish the mental world from the material or external world you are confusing things. Dreams, imaginations, hallucinations exist in...
September 06, 2020 at 07:06
In general and with some exceptions, everyone has a clear perception of what is real and what is not. But this is not discursive knowledge, but immedi...
September 06, 2020 at 06:58
I would not ask what is real, but what we call real. We call real those referents that fulfill a series of conditions = something that is presented un...
September 04, 2020 at 14:31
The Chinese leaders are not Marxists, nor do they have a moustache. They long ago gave up Marxist rhetoric for pure capitalism. In other words, they a...
September 04, 2020 at 05:21
None of that had been achieved in the 19th century, as you said, but in a very limited and formal way.Cf. the strong criticism of Engels and Dostoevsk...
September 04, 2020 at 05:07
Great! You'll tell us about it.
September 04, 2020 at 04:44
And for me it's problematic that the concept of reality is problematic for you, especially because you don't give any reason for it. If you want to di...
September 03, 2020 at 05:18
What liberal objectives had been achieved?
September 03, 2020 at 04:36
I assume this is what you think Heidegger would think. Interpretation in second phase. If the above explanation is true, it would be applicable to Par...
September 02, 2020 at 09:19
What counts is that no one spits out blood so that another can live better. (Atahualpa Yupanqui) And we will talk about the greater or lesser intellig...
September 02, 2020 at 08:45
That was 18th century liberalism. Later, liberalism has become the doctrine that accepts any junk dictatorship as long as it allows capital to do busi...
September 02, 2020 at 08:41
George Steiner: Heidegger, p. 153 I think this brief fragment says much more than your twists and turns in the void. Since the nature of being is temp...
September 01, 2020 at 14:53
That is true, but Marx left little written about the form of that dictatorship of the proletariat. In the Manifesto of the Communist Party he speaks o...
September 01, 2020 at 14:03
I do not remember if it is in The 18th of Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte or in The Class Struggles in France (I can look it up), Marx qualifies the dicta...
September 01, 2020 at 09:28
1. Time is not only present. A present without past or future does not pass and therefore is the lack of time: eternal immobility. 2. Parmenides defen...
September 01, 2020 at 05:28
What is ridiculous is that you focus on a phrase that is not well expressed to avoid the question. What I thought I said clearly and in detail in two ...
August 31, 2020 at 05:22
I was talking about poverty. You of consumption. Incidentally, I find it funny that one criticism of the USSR is that housing was expensive or that so...
August 30, 2020 at 07:26
The World Bank has teams of researchers who analyze the data provided by the country. When they are unclear or do not correspond to parallel reports, ...
August 30, 2020 at 07:20
To say that Heidegger talks a lot about it and that to understand it you have to read everything Heidegger is not to explain anything. It is not true ...
August 30, 2020 at 06:57
Do you think that the World Bank's statistics are false? Is it sold to the communists? The World Bank does not give poverty figures for North Korea. C...
August 29, 2020 at 14:36
No, it wasn't "great", whatever "great" is. I haven't been in the USSR, but I have been in Hungary and Cuba. At my host's house, a university professo...
August 29, 2020 at 14:23
To explain the relationship between three terms you must be able to link them together (Parménides, presence and time) in a sequence or proposition. Y...
August 29, 2020 at 10:07
I asked you for a clarification that you have not given. You limit yourself to talk about the valuation that Heidegger makes of the "inception" (origi...
August 28, 2020 at 07:07
What country are you speaking, please? You may be interested to know that at the time of declaring the end of the communist system at the end of 1991,...
August 28, 2020 at 05:20
At the beginning of our discussion you tried to give me lessons because, according to you, I did not read Heidegger directly but through second-hand s...
August 27, 2020 at 06:53
Perfect. That means that each "field" or level of knowledge uses the "parameters" that are useful for its study. And history or sociology has its own,...
August 26, 2020 at 14:16
Can you define what this "presence-at-hand" is and what it has to do with time and Parmenides?
August 26, 2020 at 13:15
It depends. Engels was a capitalist and defended communism. You mean that there are no Marxists who defend capitalism as there are no pro-Stalin democ...
August 26, 2020 at 06:46
It is a commonplace that the middle classes have expanded and the working class has diminished, compared to the time of Marx. But this has been achiev...
August 26, 2020 at 06:44
Of course, it is the social groups that compete according to their needs and interests. But this conflict results in something that does not exactly c...
August 26, 2020 at 06:36
Assume what you want. But don't attribute to me what you assume.
August 26, 2020 at 05:45
This is no admission at all. What you are saying shows that you have not come here to discuss ideas but to attack people. From what you have written i...
August 26, 2020 at 05:42
Of course. Marx's theory has been falsified in several of his main predictions -with Popper's permission. This is very vague. Marx needed to know how ...
August 25, 2020 at 14:23
Thank you. I was just saying that in case you wanted to discuss a specific point.
August 25, 2020 at 09:32
I'm not clear about what you say in the first scenario. Anyway, Marx would point to the second assumption with the nuances I already made. I'm not sur...
August 25, 2020 at 09:22
What you say doesn't help at all. It is absolutely unspecific.
August 25, 2020 at 06:53
With pleasure. Everyone, including communists, agrees that people who make great contributions to society should be rewarded. But disagreements begin ...
August 25, 2020 at 06:37
Do you think? It may be my English that is very bad. Because the idea seems to me quite simple and understandable.
August 25, 2020 at 05:29
This is the point! You have hit the mark!
August 25, 2020 at 05:25
It is not irrelevant, because in one case one type of law will apply and in another case different laws will apply. Only if there are laws in history....
August 25, 2020 at 05:22
The thread does not refer to Marxists, but specifically to Marx. True, the term Marxist, like almost all political terms, is quite ambiguous. But when...
August 25, 2020 at 05:11
These examples show that there are behaviors that are very difficult to eradicate. They do not prove that they are part of human nature. It may be due...
August 25, 2020 at 05:00
Marx's materialism is neither biological nor psychological. He thought that the laws of dialectics, which in nature were concretized in one way, in hi...
August 24, 2020 at 14:50
I don't understand the relationship. If the gene for aggression exists you can't stop husbands from hitting women. Therefore, let's make gender violen...
August 24, 2020 at 12:48