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"Proles and polls; Philosophy.(Britons seem about to vote Marx history's greatest philosopher)." The Economist (US). Economist Newspaper Ltd. 2005. HighBeam Research. 29 Aug. 2016 <https://www.highbeam.com>.
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A spectre haunts the BBC
"DEMOCRACY is the road to socialism", wrote Karl Marx: Britons seem to agree. Communism is in disarray these days, but BBC listeners have put its top brain at the front of a poll to find history's greatest philosopher.
Charlie Taylor, the man behind the vote, said Marx had "built up a commanding lead" over Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian philosopher of language, in second place.
Voters have until the first week of July to choose from a list of 20 philosophers picked by "In Our Time", a highbrow radio discussion programme. (recent topics include theology in 12th- century Paris and "The Sublime: Defining the State of Awe".)
What explains Marx's comeback? …
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