[KingofZion]

I guess Thatcherism has reached its halflife. One should not underestimate the influence of the communist lecturers in Oxford and Cambridge.

[grondram]

Didnt they vote Homer Simpson as the greatest American?

[Mr. Mojo]

In a shock result...

Not.

[frogjerk]

Karl Marx, his philosophy has only killed 60 million people...

[Stellar Dendrite]

OMFG...30k votes?? Why that DEFINITELY speaks for all of the brits, huh?

[Snake65]

Melvyn Bragg. Gawd. You used to be able to find piles of his books in Soviet bookstores.

[mike182d]

Greatest ever philosopher?

Do Socrates, Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, or Hume ring any bells?

They've got to be joking...

[MattinNJ]

If they are going to go with an economist, how do they not go a little closer to home-Adam Smith ? WTH?

IIRC, when Churchill lost his election, parliment broke into a chorus singing some commie anthem.

[ConservativeMind]

All this means is that the most vocal listeners of "Melvyn Bragg's Radio 4 show In Our Time" are primarily socialists.

Guys, if you had a poll of Air America's listeners, don't you think it would be the same result?

[evets]

That's the craziest thing I've ever heard!

[BenLurkin]

Sick.

[garyhope]

"Marxists organised a mass vote; they're much more organised than Hegelians, for instance."

Or Republicans or "The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" (I and we should be so lucky as to be so organized or vociferous).

[familyop]

...good job on the anti-American, socialist, mad, sacred cow. 30,000 votes is quite a sampling.

[dljordan]

"One should not underestimate the influence of the communist lecturers in Oxford and Cambridge."

The "intellectuals" always make the mistake of thinking that they won't be murdered once they help convert a country to communism/marxism. They are generally the first ones to be lined up against a wall.

[Babu]

So I'm guessing Melvyn Bragg's Radio 4 show is probably Britain's version of Airhead Amerika.

What credence would you give a poll taken of the airhead listeners to DeadAir Amerika???

I rest my case.

Nothing here. Time to move on (no pun intended) ...

[what's up]

Cambridge-Oxford is like Harvard-Yale in socialistic teaching...but times 10.

[Zeroisanumber]

Someone anti-Freeped that poll.

[muleskinner]

The Guardian is leftist, even for Britain, isn't it? You can tell Bragg is a lefty, he has too much hair...and it's nicly coiffed .

[PatrickHenry]

The best of the British philosophers was probably John Locke. He certainly had a major influence on our Founders. Amazing that the Brits seem to have forgotten him.

[sharkhawk]

And now for something completely different.

Courtesy of the University of Australia philosophy department.

Immanual Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table

David Hume could out consume Schopenhauer and Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

Plato they say, could stick it away Half a crate of whiskey every day

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle Hobbes was fond of his dram

And Rene' Descartes was a drunken fart "I drink, therefore I am"

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed A lovely little thinker But a bugger when he's pissed

[AmishDude]

Marx was a third-rate hack, even by the standards of the humanities and social sciences. He was an intellectual lightweight by any measure.