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I don't know why you're putting so much effort into these things. People flee from North Korea to South Korea, not the other way around. People used to flee from East Germany to West Germany, not the other way around. That's it. That's all the fact you really need to form a judgement.

I think a quick visit to the Communism Museum in Prague would do much to dissuade a lot of people. You need to see it to believe it, a truly sobering experience.

Even if that were true I would've expected much more diversity in alternative modes of thinking than different flavors of communism. Hell, by this point widespread (and mostly baseless) accusations against the "current order" have been around for decades. I'd argue that it's staunch support of...

Yes, but this does nothing to dispell my accusation. If, for the sake of argument, 95% of philosophy graduates are communists, even if they have significant differences of opinion among them, that still reflects a staggeringly uniform way of thought for a field that purports to "challenge...

Fair enough.

Any ideology that claims that taxation is inherently bad but can't propose a different idea on how society could function without it, is just as ridiculous as communism.

Are you joking? You know, an overwhelming majority of philosophy graduates can be of the same or nearly the same political persuasion without the need for literally every last individual to be so for my argument to hold. So bringing up individual philosophers that go against the mold is a...

Nice strawman, the head is a bit lumpy though, and one leg is longer than the other.

Oh. I am glad that you agree with me that both Nazism and Communism are equally as horrible then. I see. I minored in economy in university, so I guess I have an advantage over you in this regard. Economy is a field that relies heavily on statistics in the research itself. It's fairly "soft"...

No. People who actually study economy are more capable of understanding the ups and down of a system that purports to make economic predictions. If students of philosophy truly questioned assumptions they wouldn't have been so uniform in their political leanings. In the real world the faculties...

The question of who claims to be what has exactly zero relevance to the argument. In the end economics are the more empirical between the two, period, and we know that students of economy are much less likely to be communists than students of philosophy or similarly non-empiric fields of navel...

Hell, I minored in economics, and most of what we've been taught were mathematical models and econometrics (statistical analysis of the economy), followed by several more practical courses where we examined the sub-prime crisis in depth and things like that. Graduate courses, from what I've...

"we shouldn't let people starve*" *by murdering people we don't like and taking their money, then murdering the millions who disapprove of these methods. And in the end everyone ends up starving anyway, Fuck, at least Nazis are honest about their intentions.

Not 9/10, 10/10.