Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> Should we
> say that *Origin of Species* is a piece of bourgeois propaganda because
> Darwin was from a wealthy land owning family (or rather should we note that
> he was well positioned to study the theory and practice of husbandry on
> which he based the analogy to natural selection)?
>
Rakesh,
Sometimes it does work out that class position influences theory. Darwin was a racist which was fashionable amongst his class and he was an ableist, meaning he concluded that people not of "sound" body and mind should not marry and propogate their kind.
marta