gordo-the-impotent (kairosfocus) has been a busy boi. He has posted several more nonsensical diatribes on UD and has even added some of his usual verbal sewage to mark frank's blog. In his recent posts on UD he amply demonstrates his religious and political motives, even though ID is alleged to be non-religious and non-political. In his post linked below he shows that he thinks that anyone who disagrees with him is a Marxist, that they are poison, and that they should be removed from civilization.
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/mathgirrl-returns-an-entire-blog-is-now-devoted-to-complaining-about-uncommon-descent/comment-page-1/#comment-381972
In another post he said:
"I cut my critical thinking eye-teeth on Communists, messianistic charismatic pols and cultists, and have wariness about all three."
Methinks gordy needs to look in a mirror if he wants to see a cultist who thinks he's a messiah. He should be wary of himself. He's a god-wanna-be windbag.
I looked up Marxism and it doesn't sound nearly as bad as gordy implies. It seems to me that it promotes equality and freedom for everyone. Of course that doesn't fit into gordo's worldview that some people, like him and his fellow god pushers, are superior and should be treated special.
Marxism:
Like other socialists, Marx and Engels sought an end to capitalism and the systems which they perceived to be responsible for the exploitation of workers. Whereas earlier socialists often favored longer-term social reform, Marx and Engels believed that popular revolution was all but inevitable, and the only path to socialism and communism.
According to the Marxist argument for communism, the main characteristic of human life in class society is alienation; and communism is desirable because it entails the full realization of human freedom. Marx here follows Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in conceiving freedom not merely as an absence of restraints but as action with content. According to Marx, communism's outlook on freedom was based on an agent, obstacle, and goal. The agent is the common/working people; the obstacles are class divisions, economic inequalities, unequal life-chances, and false consciousness; and the goal is the fulfilment of human needs including satisfying work, and fair share of the product.
They believed that communism allowed people to do what they want, but also put humans in such conditions and such relations with one another that they would not wish to exploit, or have any need to. Whereas for Hegel the unfolding of this ethical life in history is mainly driven by the realm of ideas, for Marx, communism emerged from material forces, particularly the development of the means of production.
Marxism holds that a process of class conflict and revolutionary struggle will result in victory for the proletariat and the establishment of a communist society in which private property and ownership is abolished over time and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community. (Private property and ownership, in this context, means ownerships of the means of production, not private possessions). Marx himself wrote little about life under communism, giving only the most general indication as to what constituted a communist society. It is clear that it entails abundance in which there is little limit to the projects that humans may undertake.[citation needed] In the popular slogan that was adopted by the communist movement, communism was a world in which each gave according to their abilities, and received according to their needs. The German Ideology (1845) was one of Marx's few writings to elaborate on the communist future:
"In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic."
Marx's lasting vision was to add this vision to a theory of how society was moving in a law-governed way towards communism, and, with some tension, a political theory that explained why revolutionary activity was required to bring it about.
