"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 may have been disabused of thinking, but the fact remains: our species will evolve or it will devolve into worse-than-barbarism. Those "horrors of the 20th century" are enough to force that modification of Rosa's classic formula.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
>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.