RE: Why millennials are drawn to socialism
May 28, 2018 at 9:46 am
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2018 at 9:48 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(May 28, 2018 at 8:13 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 27, 2018 at 3:37 pm)Edwardo Piet Wrote: Like you already admitted, Marx's philosophy as idealized was never put into practice.
The conclusion from your admission? Well, because it was never put into practice there's no evidence of its flaws in practice. You made my point for me.
That's a non sequitur. It doesn't follow that because a pure example doesn't exist that we can't learn things from an imperfect example.
It's a non-sequitur because that wasn't my point. He already admitted my point.
Where did I ever say we can't learn things from the imperfect example? Nowhere, that's where. What I'm saying is that that imperfect example is not an example of the perfect example.
And you're committing a Perfect Solution Fallacy if you think it has to work perfectly or not at all. This is not a case of either the example is perfect or imperfect and since perfect isn't possible then just old any really shitty imperfect example is an example of its failure. It doesn't work like that. If the philosophy wasn't actually put into practice then it wasn't actually put into practice. I'm not saying it has to work PERFECTLY or not at all, I'm saying it has to actually be put into practice in a way that at least resembles the philosophy and not just a strawman of it.
