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You're response on the meat eating thread was great.

It isn't like I reply with "WELL STALIN SAID" or "WELL HOXHA SAID" in normal conversations with people on socialism, history, etc.

Apparently when I said that it means Hoxha was a perfect human being and absolutely never made any mistakes ever.

I concur with what Bill Bland said about Stalin, and I feel it applies to Hoxha as well. "I don’t think we have anything to criticise Stalin for, of course one could point out mistakes that Stalin made, but Stalin being a living person and not a divinely inspired person, must have made some mistakes, but I can’t find any. I have read the whole of his works and I can find nothing today even after all this hindsight that is available to us now, there is nothing he said, definitely said, that is inaccurate now."

Obviously this concerns matters relating to socialist theory and such, not the length of hair.

I never said they aren't flawed. You're the one acting as if his denunciation of people having long hair is some sort of pillar of Marxism-Leninism.

Thanks. I wasn't really expecting you to rethink your position, but in this case I am happy to see that I was wrong about you, since your previous message is pretty much dead-on.

Here's a thought that occurs to me; in order for capitalism to be successful enough to become a globally dominant socioeconomic system, it needs a source of reliable facts about reality. Scientific investigation is very good at providing such facts.

Your picture, I think I've seen it before.. It must be an amino acid.

A lot of ideologues say they are for science, who doesn't claim that they are for science after all, but in reality they only support science to the extent that it confirms their own preconceptions while rejecting that which does not conform to their view of the universe. I would say that it's particularly a problem among leftists, with some doctrines going as far as to declare themselves a "revolutionary science." Pseudoscientific conceptions seem to be a huge problem here. I look forward to seeing your posts in the future.

Are you dropping your Maoist views? I saw your statement in the "Is Marxism reformist?" thread:

"Marxism, Engelism, Leninism, and other individualisms are outdated. All of the thinkers of the 20th century and before lacked an understanding of the new sciences of communal relations and new organisation tools like the Internet. We should completely abandon all programs for revolution that were created a century ago, including the one in the communist manifesto."

I was surprised to see you say that, but I think there is a lot of truth to that. People get too attached to the historical legacy of long dead men, to the detriment of theory that is relevant to the world as it exists now, not the world as it was in 1848 or 1917.

I cannot identify any in him.

Bland's comments on Stalin near the end of this interview apply to Hoxha as well: http://marxists.org/history/erol/uk....-interview.htm