When reactionaries enter “not even wrong” territory, there’s really no reasoning. Their colourful positions based on inventions and fancies of imagination cannot be refuted to their satisfaction, so why bother?
That this person is definitely not looking to get their views changed since they already have their pre-conceived excuses ready. Clearly even half-truths can be used to engage in anti-intellectualism.
Furthermore historical materialism is a theory of history, not a series of predictions. Marx could very well be wrong about a number of predictions, but that doesn’t negate the explanatory power of the method itself especially in contrast to other theories where history is little more than a string of accidents.
What do you even say to something like this? Lol
When reactionaries enter “not even wrong” territory, there’s really no reasoning. Their colourful positions based on inventions and fancies of imagination cannot be refuted to their satisfaction, so why bother?
You could ask for sources and watch them malfunction from the question.
That this person is definitely not looking to get their views changed since they already have their pre-conceived excuses ready. Clearly even half-truths can be used to engage in anti-intellectualism.
Furthermore historical materialism is a theory of history, not a series of predictions. Marx could very well be wrong about a number of predictions, but that doesn’t negate the explanatory power of the method itself especially in contrast to other theories where history is little more than a string of accidents.