Have either of you (Jim or Charles) even read his essay on the subject?
I didn't think so.
Thomas
^^^ CB: Sorry for the short shrift treatment. I agree that Singer's essay raises interesting issues, and has a valid purpose, worth reading and discussing. I didn't mean to cut discussion, but continue it.
I don't think that the rest of the essay does undo the mischaracterization of Marx as having a fully postmod , anti-essentialist position on "human nature." I jumped to that because this is a sort of big issue on the left.
In other words, Singer's essay might be cogently directed toward the postmodern left, but not the Marxist left, and he specifically discusses it in terms of Marx.