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Raymond Aron, an Uncommon card
Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 107
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 40,000
Power 107 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Aron is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people, he argues that Marxism was the opium of the intellectuals in post-war France.
- In the book, Aron chastised French intellectuals for what he described as their harsh criticism of capitalism and democracy and their simultaneous defense of the actions of the communist governments of the East.
- Critic Roger Kimball suggests that Opium is "a seminal book of the twentieth century".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Raymond Aron article was read about 40,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Raymond Aron (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Studio Harcourt., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
