[dorlomin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoZp177HDJ8

This is a lecture by a very un-Marxists thinker about Marx. It is not hostile on the basis of ideology but is not supportive of the conclusions. It is by a well known anthropologist.

Usefull for people who wish to spend an hour understanding what Marx did think and not what his followers or detractors wanted him to have said.

(the rest of the lectures are worth it)

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I')t's too bad the sound is so awful. I'd like to follow the lectures.

[dorlomin]

I will try dig out some Popper or something on Popper later as a counter to the Marx, certainly found his critiques a lot more compelling than Hayek.

[RedStateGreen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', 'h')ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoZp177HDJ8

This is a lecture by a very un-Marxists thinker about Marx. It is not hostile on the basis of ideology but is not supportive of the conclusions. It is by a well known anthropologist.

Usefull for people who wish to spend an hour understanding what Marx did think and not what his followers or detractors wanted him to have said.

(the rest of the lectures are worth it)

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', 'I') will try dig out some Popper or something on Popper later as a counter to the Marx, certainly found his critiques a lot more compelling than Hayek.

[PrestonSturges]

I would suggest Poppers "The Open Society and Its Enemies....Vol. 2 Hegel and Marx."

the funny thing is that Hayek and Popper were best friends, and Popper considered Hayek one of his main influences. Popper was much stronger than Hayek in understanding sociology, where Hayek was pretty much a jackass.

George Soros was one of Popper's graduate students, and Soros uses Popper's "Open Society" phrase. It's not clear if Soros ever met Hayek.

WIngnuts like to imagine that Hayek and Soros are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, but they are practically cousins.

[Plantagenet]

"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
----Karl Popper on socialism

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t is always the myth of the lost tribal paradise, the hysterical refusal to carry the cross of civilization.

-Karl Popper hopping out of his time machine in 1962 to warn about the Tea Party

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I') would suggest Poppers "The Open Society and Its Enemies....Vol. 2 Hegel and Marx."

the funny thing is that Hayek and Popper were best friends, and Popper considered Hayek one of his main influences. Popper was much stronger than Hayek in understanding sociology, where Hayek was pretty much a jackass.

George Soros was one of Popper's graduate students, and Soros uses Popper's "Open Society" phrase. It's not clear if Soros ever met Hayek.

WIngnuts like to imagine that Hayek and Soros are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, but they are practically cousins.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I') would suggest Poppers "The Open Society and Its Enemies....Vol. 2 Hegel and Marx."

the funny thing is that Hayek and Popper were best friends, and Popper considered Hayek one of his main influences. Popper was much stronger than Hayek in understanding sociology, where Hayek was pretty much a jackass.

George Soros was one of Popper's graduate students, and Soros uses Popper's "Open Society" phrase. It's not clear if Soros ever met Hayek.

WIngnuts like to imagine that Hayek and Soros are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, but they are practically cousins.

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')----Karl Popper on socialism

[PrestonSturges]

It's off topic, but Popper's "The Open Society vol 2" has an absolutely mind blowing description of selling the authoritarian Great Man and preemptive war through the use of propaganda that reads like the script from the run-up to the Iraq war.

If someone had written it in 2005, people would have said "sour grapes," but he wrote it in 1962.

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '
')George Soros was one of Popper's graduate students, and Soros uses Popper's "Open Society" phrase. It's not clear if Soros ever met Hayek.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '[')i]"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
----Karl Popper on socialism

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I')t's off topic, but Popper's "The Open Society vol 2" has an absolutely mind blowing description of selling the authoritarian Great Man and preemptive war through the use of propaganda that reads like the script from the run-up to the Iraq war.

If someone had written it in 2005, people would have said "sour grapes," but he wrote it in 1962.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') mean seriously, why do you think the right has such an obsessive hatred of Soros?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')----Karl Popper on socialism

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')2. You are evidently confusing social welfare and pension programs with socialism.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '
')As a Social Democrat Jew who fled the Nazis.... Popper a "socialist."