The debate about human nature and aggression is interesting but has nothing to do with Marx. Let us suppose that aggression is a natural characteristi...
Ideas, lots of them. But you know what Marx said: enough of thinking about the world. Now we have to change it. And there, certainly, things are not e...
I don't get the idea. Socialism equals equality and the US is one of the most unequal countries. 30% of Afro-American children live on the edge of pov...
And that will be so as long as the capitalists can leave them some of the crumbs from the feast. If there are no crumbs left, white-collar workers wil...
If they defend capitalism, they can't be Marxists. It would be contradictory to everything Marx wrote and predicted. Whether or not they benefit from ...
Correction: no private property, no classes. Not one or three. Marx believed that after a period of the dictatorship of the proletariat there would be...
Democracy is also perverted when it is controlled by a social group. If all the candidates for elections represent the interests of the industrial-mil...
For God's sake! Apart from the Communist-Capitalist parties that are as Marxist as my aunt - well my aunt is quite a bit more than they are - the rest...
Exactly! But it's even worse because the defenders of capitalism play with two cards: neo-Darwinism and contractualism. When it suits them, they appea...
And one wonders: Why is the scarecrow of communism still being used when there are virtually no communists today? Why does it keep coming back to a 19...
There has long been a large sample of surveys that say that what happens in capitalist countries (including "democratic" ones) is not what people thin...
Obviously. Marx was not a liberal Democrat. He thought that parliamentary democracy was an instrument in the hands of the bourgeois class and that oth...
You could say that. But you can find interesting things as long as you know how to separate the straw from the grain. And complement it with other sou...
Make no mistake. I do not defend or promote Marxism. Firstly because I'm not talking about Marxism but about Marx. Second, because I haven't read one ...
I think I've already mentioned two examples. A very simple one is to ask yourself how much of the price of the T-shirt you have bought Made in East or...
No, but Marx believed that if the working class provided itself with a system of internal democracy it could control its leaders. This was the theory ...
Right. He wasn't interested in minorities who exploit others. For him, a democracy that does not solve the problem of inequality, misery and hunger is...
Go out to the countries of the Third World and the suburbs and you will see the violence of capitalism. Ask yourself how much they paid the people who...
Are you talking about the Palestinians? Or Pinochet? Or about... You describe a Dantean scene as if it happened in a Superman cartoon or a B series co...
How naive of you! This doesn't always work. What does " bring up Hitler" mean? Given that the bourgeoisie controls the economy, culture and the capita...
I don't understand why Marx should have predicted Pol Pot. Is preaching the the struggle against the exploitation of man by man leading straightforwar...
I wouldn't say the purpose, but I would say that philosophy can support people, including ordinary people. For that I don't think they need to read He...
I assume that you are not providing a reasoning or evidence, but a feeling. I can share that feeling more or less, but it's not a basis on which we ca...
I think the only item that can be seriously discussed is the first one. Deciding whether the philosopher's obscurantism is a guru's ruse or a genuine ...
Do you mean George Washington or David Ben Gurion (I guess)? As a description of what happened in China before and during the revolution I find it a b...
I wouldn't be so sure. "He claimed to be a Marxist", it would be more correct. Liberal policies, too, have always led to the opposite of what they int...
Indeed.What Marx defends is the socialization of the collective means of production, not referring to the private property of use goods. That is, fact...
I haven't read it either. I have it on my desk, but it's a little heavy for me to read. I'm not interested in philology fiction and I'm saturated with...
I don't think you can say that philosophy is in the service of people. Not in a direct way, at least. Human activities have two kinds of usefulness fo...
If you say starter in a psychological sense you are right. Every knowledge begins in our experience. In an epistemological sense it is not true. Some ...
You are not aware of all the movements that allow you to drive a car. But you know how to drive a car. And that goes for a lot of knowledge that you a...
But he does this to discredit the "habit" of the senses and to deny that the things we see are real. How can Parmenides base his doctrine on things th...
I'm sorry to say, but the one who hasn't read it (or hasn't understood it) is you. I have read and reread quite a few fragments of Parmenides' poem an...
Being and Time, also appears in the sense of "correct". I take this opportunity to remind you that Dasein's Being is the center of the research on Bei...
Aristotle and all the ulterior metaphysics because they conceal it and became “blind and perverted” in Heidegger’s words. Of course, it only says what...
Let us see: (I have highlighted in bold letter some words that may help you understand what you seem unable to understand). For Heidegger (except in h...
Well, you're laughing at Heidegger himself. It is clear from this text that the Greeks had a knowledge of truth that was later lost. That knowledge of...
A property is nothing more than an attribute, a quality, like the ability to do something. If you say that X is y or that X possesses y, y is the prop...
What a pity! What a waste of time! I had the patience to seek out your contributions to the debate. You have quoted Heidegger 11 times (including a Yo...
If you mean he doesn't offer any coherent interpretation, fine. But that doesn't stop him from attributing to Being a number of powers that go beyond ...
I think this is exactly your case: You're a good disciple of Heidegger: you've decided that words don't mean what they usually mean but what you want ...
Does this mean that the essence of today's philosophy is free and rational debate? That's a good point... to start a philosophical debate. The first p...
In general, I agree. I would change "Ethics" for "Morality". The philosophy of morality is valid for me and is generally called "ethics". It's true th...
Philosophy is not only about reason, but it uses reason. What other tool can you use to investigate philosophical problems? Faith, desire, experiment,...
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