Love when Marxists say “this is a science!” and if you ask “ah so we’re going to make casual models generating precise predictions we can test and iteratively improve?” it’s clarified: no not a *bourgeois* science, the other, better, kind, where you mainly just reinterpret Hegel.
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“What if I told you…” is a shit, cliché formulation, generally, but it’s exceptionally bad when his tweet makes clear the sense in which he’s using the word “science.”
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His tweet specifically made the implication that the way he used it was the only correct way. That's where he shows his lack of seriousness
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I see this is your first time encountering Liam!
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It would, I’d be shocked and inclined to disbelieve you.
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An idiocy, phrased as an own. Good job
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If you told me that, I would answer that even if you wanna pull the “natural philosophy” card, Marxism is still as much a pseudo-science as phrenology
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Apples to oranges, you have to compare it with other schools of economics
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lol lovely illustration of the science of historical materialism.
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Hm, but those are different words?
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oh, so 'marxism is a science in a steampunk way,' neat, love the goggles!
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