social science production (was: Dark Sides of 'Solidarity'?)

[Rakesh Bhandari]

Hi Carrol, Christopher Caudwell's comments on Darwin are in Crisis in
Physics, I believe. The idea is that the industrial revolution had allowed
bourgeois intellectuals to discover incessant change as a regular feature
of the natural world as well, but that discovery was marred by bourgeois
distortion. Perhaps Caudwell is referring to the gradualism of Darwin's
theory; perhaps he is arguing against Darwin's paradigmatic Malthusian 
scenario of differential deaths, instead of differential fecundity, as the
outcome of natural selection. I don't think Caudwell is clear about what
he thinks the distortion to be. Darwin's theory of natural selection was

 not widely accepted until its synthesis with Mendelian genetics, I
believe.
Best,
Rakesh