Which is the pons asinorum of socialist geometry: (i) the incomprehensible power of human self-interest or (ii) the inevitability of history?
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Answer: (i) the incomprehensible power of human self-interest
That which can't be understood and which is necessary to understand if one wants to continue an intellectual path is a pons asinorum.
The pons asinorum, bridge of asses, is the nichname for Euclid's fifth postulate. It was the postulate whose difficulty stopped students from moving forward in Geometry.
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