[MD] Artificial intelligence? Of course! Artificial Intellect? Never.

[Ian Glendinning]

I suspect Craig is right, from our lofty positions as enlightened
MoQists, in his "rating" of Marx qualities ... but he sure was an
intellectual.

He was of course prescient to note that social force was permitted to
impose higher patterns on lower patterns, and resist force from lower
patterns (ring any bells ?). Writing a manifesto (with Hegel) is a
highly intellectual exercise, but of course the totalitarians didn't
have to understand it to enact it their way ... such is life. And he
was a hugely influential thinker, more so than Pirsig so far. He was
voted top philosopher of all time in a BBC poll only a couple of years
ago.

But hey ... we still haven't sorted out the intellectual level to our
mutual satisfaction ... have we ?
So stones & glass houses spring to mind.

And finally, in the words of the song ...

"I miss Ronald Raygun
I can't believe it, but it's true."

The power of quality rhetoric delivered by a professional .... slipped
the surly bonds of earth ... etc.
Ian


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:32 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well above all, Marx was intellectual.  Which nobody ever accused Reagen of
> being.
>
> And to my mind, you can't deny his world-changing value as a thinker.
>