>
>CB: I don't have any illusions about this. Read up on it in _The
>Dialectical
>Biologist_ by Marxist biologists Levins and Lewontin, and maybe you will
>lose some of your confusion. Half the URL you put out are by crackpots. Is
>this one one of those ?
>
>Heh, only half?
>Nah, that URL http://www.dcu.ie/~comms/hsheehan/lysenko.htm was offered in
>all seriousness.
>My reading up on science topics could use some encouragement, btw.
>(I have to suppress a chuckle when I see quantitative articles in the AJS
>or
>APSR in Soc. or Political "Science" belaboring the obvious behind loads of
>the higher math. Of what use was that stuff to a Mills, Merton or Dahl?
>Though if I could understand P. Sraffa...
>http://cs.muohio.edu/Archives/hes/sep-1999/0037.html hmm, Witgenstein &
>Sraffa...well what the hey cf. "Wittgenstein and Marxism, " edited by Gavin
>Kitching http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/politics/staffnames/kitching.htm
>His book, "Rethinking Socialism, " was a good read.)
>Besides Levins & Lewontin, who I haven't read, offhand I can only think of
>Stephen Jay Gould as on the left.
>Any recommendations, lbo'ers on science writers who are lefties? As a kid,
>I
>loved a book, "Mathematics for the Millions, " which I gather was written
>by
>a Popular Frontist in the 40's. And Verso (?) has a new bio of J.B.S.
>Haldane.
>Michael Pugliese
>
>
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