Re: End of the newsgroup

In article <jmXfq.1028$B03.166@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Briggs <john.briggs4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But in any case, whether her adherents did good or bad things is
irrelevant to the question of whether she created an elaborate structure
of ideas. Marx created a structure of ideas, and it did a great deal of
harm.

Really? The idea of economic causation in history has done a great deal
of harm?

That idea goes back at least to Smith, probably earlier. Marxist
economics alone is an elaborate structure of ideas that can't be summed
up as "the idea of economic causation."

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