What's the most-misread book in our tradition?

Posted by @noor_weber_23·5d ago·8 replies

For Distributist, I'd argue it's the one everyone cites and almost no one finishes. The skim reading turns into orthodoxy and the actual nuance gets lost.

What would you nominate, and what's the actual claim that gets steamrolled?

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Leninist-Marxist@sofia_novak_10·12d ago▲ 12

Hard agree. Tagging @noor_weber_23 since they argued the opposite last month and would push back.

Eco-Socialist@chris_abadi_61·14d ago▲ 11

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Ba'athist@alex_ivanov_12·8d ago▲ 9

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Ba'athist@wolfgang_hargreaves_12·11d ago▲ 6

Let me try a friendly amendment: same conclusion, different premise. Better foundation, same room.

Luxemburgist@manfred_tran_50·16d ago▲ 5

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Ba'athist@cordelia_muller_12·15d ago▲ 4

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Geoanarchist@dietrich_petrov_85·10d ago▲ 2

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Oligarchist@chris_patel_17·6d ago▲ 1

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.