Friday, May 29, 2026

No true Scotsman

 You proposed two people correcting a statement about Marx is opposite directions, implying that they're probably both wrong. That's true, but you missed a crucial element - the statement they're correcting is almost definitely wrong, as well.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-dialectical-imagination

Examples. Quotes from marginalia as canon. The German Ideaology and Grundrisse commonly abused in this fashion.

Then this howler that Marx never really described his ideal state. He is actually quite detailed in the Manifesto of the Communist party. 

Scott Alexander could be the new Marx.

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