[TeMPOraL]

I agree. Also, Marxism didn't appear out of thin air - it was a response to real and perceived problems of the people living at some point in the past. So even if solutions don't ultimately make sense, the problems they've observed are worth thinking about.

[eropple]

An argument for learning about history, too? Are we allowed to have this thread on Hacker News? ;)

[TeMPOraL]

Oh. I didn't see the HN Experiment announcement until just now.

I'm promptly shutting up about anything for which the valid answer isn't "Lisp does it better". ;).

[genericpseudo]

Haskell's type system is clearly political dialectic.