[lbo-talk] How Americans would respond

Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com
Sat Apr 30 16:32:01 PDT 2005


On 4/30/05, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:

For
> Marxists and people in the Marxian tradition, able (like Trotsky)
> to envision the ultimate destiny opened to mankind by the
> liberation of its material and intellectual productive forces under
> the "higher stage" of communist society, genetic modification
> represents nothing less than the evolutionary future of the
> human race.

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The horrors of the 20th century are enough to disabuse more than a few humans on this planet of thinking in terms of the 'ultimate destiny of mankind'; it is hubris and megalomania on steroids..........

Ian

-- "Reason demands belief in infinitely many contradictions" [Roy Sorenson]



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