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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 19 June 2012 03:22:26PM *  6 points [-]

It looks hyper-skeptical to me! At least when describing everything outside of a communist utopia

I guess the Pope is also skeptical about Buddhist reincarnation.

When observing contemporary social phenomena - from family life to academia - they've historically been rather cynical and tried to look for base motives of power, dominiance and greed affecting them.

If one believes that "everything is a class fight" (I know this is oversimplification), then finding elements of class fight in everything is not an evidence for their skepticism.

Shortly, skepticism does not mean "a belief that your opponents are wrong".

Comment author: Oligopsony 24 June 2012 01:51:06PM 1 point [-]

If you mean that Marxists are all furiously agreeing with each other, I can assure you that they're not.

If you mean that they all agree on whatever one makes the minimal criteria for calling someone Marxist, well, trivially yes.

If you mean that they're really confident in their conclusions, that seems to be temperamental.

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