More on Eagleton/Spivak

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Wed Jun 30 12:10:16 PDT 1999


In message <377A4115.9BF5943C at lafn.org>, Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> writes
> 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.

Any proof to all this, or is it just self-evident.

I prefer Engels judgement at Marx's graveside, that as Darwin discovered the law of biological reproduction Marx discovered that of social reproduction. Engels and Marx new a genius of modern science when they saw one.

-- Jim heartfield



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