[lbo-talk] Open Letter from a Keynesian to a Marxist by Joan Robinson

socialismorbarbarism socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 21:00:20 PDT 2011


c b: "It is like using part of Darwin's/Mendel's thesis, but leaving out important parts, and still claiming to be advocating Darwinism."

But that's exactly what biologists do. It's because science has advanced. Almost no one mentions "The Ascent of Man" anymore, except for historical reasons; it's a bit of an embarrassment. But no one treats generally ignoring it as a *refutation* of Darwin--except, maybe, creationists.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:53 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sigh. This is what comes of treating Marxism as a religion rather than
> a grapple with reality -- suppressing everything Marx stood for in the
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