[lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists?

[Carrol Cox]

The concept of "altruism," invented by Comte, is a futile attempt to
resolve the contradiction btween a radically individualist conception of
humanity on the one hand and the obvious sociality of human history on
the other hand. (This sociality is older than homo sapiens.) Dawkins
accepts the absurdigy of radical individualism than tries to reconcile
it with his own subjective impulses. It's all very silly.

Carrol