Should we all face the fact non STEM subjects are inferior to STEM

Do you live in a cave? I'd say he was a horribly misled ideologue, but he is widely considered a genius.

Maybe to your social science brians he is...

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An A* in History is worth more than a D in physics...study what you're good at

Well isn't that fairly obvious! I think a better way to put it would be 'Is an A* in history worth the same as an A* in physics?'

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I'm not a social scientist, so no.

But if what you're suggesting is that only they think he is important, then you're simply wrong. I don't know whether you dogmatically reject all information derived otherwise than from natural science, but though some STEM students (largely not scientists) are like this, not all are.

It is legitimate (though perhaps false) to say that Marx, or any other social scientist, is a genius. Nothing other than dogmatism can legitimate rejecting all non-STEM thinkers as candidates for genius.

I was making a general statement, hence I said brains. Pay attention to detail.

What are you then? Humanities? Still, it cannot compare. Maybe they should teach how you all how to pay more attention to detail. Or is it just you?

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I think what we really need to recognise is that while STEM subjects are unarguably more intellectually and conceptually challenging it truly depends on the person.
Clearly any muppet could learn a load of history but that's not what it takes to do well in history. Many people who are good at STEM subjects may struggle to do as well in this because they may not be good with essays or simply may not enjoy it and therefore find it more difficult.
On the other hand it's not a coincidence that the people we consider to be 'geniuses' such as stephen hawking, or obviously in fiction the big bang theory are all STEM based because who's ever heard of someone who's a genius at geography or history.
Not because the subjects are inferior more because they present less of a need for great intellectual ability.

I was making a general statement, hence I said brains. Pay attention to detail.

What are you then? Humanities? Still, it cannot compare. Maybe they should teach how you all how to pay more attention to detail. Or is it just you?

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I'm having difficulty responding to this, because you aren't really making any sort of argument. If you want to demonstrate that Social Scientists, Philosophers, Historians and Poets cannot be geniuses, then why don't you make an argument for that position?

I'm guessing it's because you don't have one.

Karl Marx wasn't a scientist, and he is widely considered a genius. Descartes was more important as a Philosopher than as a Mathematician, and he is widely considered a genius. Who doesn't think that Shakespeare was a genius?

Besides, it's not true that how far a person is a genius is well-measured by what people think of them. People think Stephen Hawking is a genius because he knows things about theoretical physics, and that is widely considered a complicated and difficult field of inquiry. But Stephen Hawking also says some incredibly stupid things, and although this doesn't mean he isn't a 'genius' (whatever that is), it does mean that it is not as simple as, 'he is a genius'.

Natural science is an extraordinarily successful area of inquiry, but it's only another area of inquiry. The reason that we are more likely to consider STEM experts geniuses is because it is a successful area of inquiry, but that doesn't necessarily say anything about the people who partake in it.

Karl Marx was a scientist.

Never said they can't be. I was disputing that Karl Marx is a genius. JRR Tolkien and Shakespeare are geniuses in their own right but clearly not in league with minds such as Issac Newton. What has literature and poetry done for humanity? Write more of itself?

Newton is basically the father of the modern world. N3wtons laws are used extensively in engineering ie bridges, machines like cars, manufacturing lines. And lets not forget the legendary calculus he also invented.

Tell me, what has Karl Marx done besides makes waves against authority?

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Karl Marx was a scientist.