I've never seen a more pristine example of a straw man, let alone in the wild. Value is fundamental to what constitutes Marxist theory. It's like claiming Garfield hates pasta. Even beyond the strawman, I'm reminded of this quote

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops" - Stephen Jay Gould

At which point ~~he's~~ the OP, Nick Tyrone, is going to pivot to "Capitalism lifts people out of poverty" and "it's not 0 sum" and "it's not violent, only the state is violent because starvation is a baseline" so the beauty would be wasted on him.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Stephen J Gould was a dipshit? Aw dang it

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Huh? What's dipshitty about the quote? Seems cool to me. He's just saying Einstein probably wasn't super special and would-be Einsteins never got recognition because they were born too poor.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I get the sneaking suspicion that @RNAi@hexbear.net saw the last paragraph where I used a vague pronoun and thought the criticism was levied at Gould. Otherwise I'm willing and open to learn more about Gould.

@spectre@hexbear.net

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

Yeah probably something like that

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

This,

I always liked that quote from Gould, was afraid he nullified it with capitalist diarrhea propaganda

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago

Is there an issue with the quote? Am I misreading?

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