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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 17 August 2014 04:03:44AM 0 points [-]

How about this?

[The ideas of the Frankfurt School] are very extreme examples of ways of thinking about society, both normatively and descriptively, for which I have very little sympathy, yet are closely affiliated to ideas I am receptive to. (E.g.: so far as I can see, they were all what Marxists would call "idealists", which is not a compliment, yet they claimed to be Marxists, even historical materialists!) My interest in them is thus interest in my notorious and embarrassing ideological cousins...

Not that I think pigeon-holing him is very useful for determining his views on economics or politics, let alone IQ.

Comment author: gjm 17 August 2014 10:25:26PM 1 point [-]

Suggests that Marxism is an idea Shalizi is "receptive to" but not (at least to me) that he's actually a Marxist as such.