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Comment author: Lumifer 04 June 2014 12:51:18AM *  2 points [-]

Ideologies frequently make falsifiable statements.

Ideologies rarely make easily falsifiable statements.

Karl Marx said that a proletarian revolution will lead to heaven on Earth. This is a falsifiable statement (and it was successfully falsified), but in order to falsify it you have to try it which is often all an ideology wants.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 04 June 2014 05:41:15AM 3 points [-]

Ideologies rarely make easily falsifiable statements.

Agreed, my point is that it is still meaningful to speak about ideologies being right or wrong.