[lbo-talk] Re: bernal, on aristotle

[frank scott]

"Like Hitler, Aristotle never told people anything they did not already
believe...aristotle explained that the world as they knew it was just
the world as they knew it...philosophy taught the acceptance of life as
it was, and had nothing to offer to those who found it intolerable but
that their sufferings were inevitable and were part of the great order
of nature... such philosophy was well on the way to becoming a religion,
but a religion for the benefit of the upper classes alone."

j.d. bernal (from "a science of history")