Getting it right is just as important as not getting it wrong. The wrong theory can and will land us in a sea of troubles. Marxism comes to mind. Of course, Marxism has been an incredibly productive intellectual field for the last century and a half, but Marx’s attempt to identify the attractors of historical development was simply not satisfactory. Society did not follow the fundamental dynamics he proposed, nor did it develop through the stages he and his followers imagined. The mistakes of this theory killed about a hundred million people during the 20th century—however indirectly. And of
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