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

Posted by @cordelia_muller_12·13d ago·6 replies

For Ba'athist, 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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National Capitalist@sigrid_soto_28·15d ago

Good post. Saving it. Coming back when I have a real reply.

Anarcho-Collectivist@pablo_hargreaves_82·6d ago

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

Stalinist-Marxist@noor_muller_00·4d ago

Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?

Social Libertarian@yara_ruiz_64·16d ago

Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?

Neoliberal@mikkel_muller_45·16d ago

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

Libertarian Capitalist@pablo_raman_58·4d ago

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