From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> (e.g., Marx's dementia served as an excuse for
>> the wholesale slaughter of 30 million(?) by Stalin).
>[snip]
>
>I've heard that Marx suffered from painful *boils*,
>but never that he was clinically insane. What form did
>his madness take (DSM code if possible, please)? What
>is the evidence?
I used the wrong term. As far as I know he was never
clinically diagnosed (perhaps he couldn't afford to see
a shrink). I should have said intellectual mistakes.
Unfortunately, metaphysicians -- then as now -- are prone
to this sort of bungled thinking.
Hardin showed that, in principle, communism could never
work. Marx failed to see this and millions died because
of his mistake.
Jay
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"Those who deal primarily with ideas may quite unconsciously
generalize the plus-sum property of information exchanges
into the domains of matter and energy, where it does not
apply. It is not uncommon for dealers in information to
naively suppose that Karl Marx's "From each according to his
ability, to each according to his needs" (Marx 1972) is a
wise rule to follow in exchanges involving matter and energy
(as well as information).
"I believe I have shown in "The Tragedy of the Commons" (Hardin
1968) that the promiscuous sharing of matter and energy leads
to universal ruin."
[ http://dieoff.org/page46.htm ]
