> CB: Yes, I am reading a bio of Einstein now, and he was a militant
> pacifist in Germany during WWI, very brave and principled. And he is
> just a likeable humanist, real smart, a socialist. But I still am not
> sure how relativity helps the world, given that most physics gets
> controlled by the capitalists toward their own ends. Philosophers and
> physicists have imagined the world in a number of ways, but the thing is
> to change it into communism from capitalism.
>
> I know this is a very strict standard, but why not the best ethical
> foundations for the left ?
Would a transition to communism be easier in a world with limitless energy, in a world where technology has provided the means to harness and use energy to all the peoples of the world, not just those with the weapons to protect the currently limited resources?
If the anser is even "maybe" then isn't it too early to ask how any kind of science "helps the world"?
Matt
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