david f, I accuse you of blogging on OLO at half-past four in the morning.

What do you have to say for yourself?

Grim, I actually have a monopoly on my own poetry. But unfortunately I have been unable to abuse my market position, or indeed, to have a market position.

Predictably, this supposed discussion on how Hegel was hijacked by Marx has degenerated into the usual Internet idiocy of petit-bourgeois would-be thinkers 'explaining' just exactly how clueless they are about anything real -- let alone on understanding socialism in the least... But then, this whole thing is all the original author's fault: for having the hubris to think he could succeed in bold claims against what is well-proven, where many, many others have demonstrably failed.

None of the past day's comments are worthy of a reply -- being the usual assortment of moronic ridicule, total fantasy, irrelevancy and the like.

Maybe things could change if these types got tired and drifted away... but more likely this article and its comments will simply peter out, as most all the others anywhere have. Because there's simply no reasoning with the smug and unreasonable. It takes major upheavals and revolution to get such complacent minds out of their ruts. If even that.

Grok
Is that the best you can do - assuming what is in issue, appeal to absent authority, ad hominem, and nothing else, all in the one reply? - a veritable trifecta of fallacies.

I've really got you pegged, haven't I?

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Dear Grok,

Peter Hume has a history on this forum of labelling people "idiots" if they don't respond to his "challenges".
Take no notice.

I think Orwell understood Hegel, Marx, Lenin etc.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwel

Grok, Poirot, wow what amazingly clever rebuttals. You really showed ‘em, didn’t you? Grok's posts were larded with insult from the get-go; Hume only gave him some of his own back.

GH you are no closer to justifying ordering people around than the Marxists. Let’s suppose I advocate handouts or special laws favouring the X group. Can I get it under your claim of balance and if not why not?