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To: gao seng who wrote (177958)9/5/2001 10:58:44 PM
From: ThirdEye  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Whoa, dude, you're moving a little fast. First, you presume that whatever that tirade was about Shaw was believable by anyone other than the author. To draw a conclusion about socialism from the content of one play is ridiculous. Shaw also wrote Pygmalion. Shall we presume that Fabians were a bunch of autocratic bourgeois sentimentalists? Or was Pygmalion perhaps a metaphor of the colonialist "white man's burden?" Further drawing the conclusion that Fabians "represented" socialism is like saying the Seventh Day Adventists represent Christianity. They were a flash in the pan.

Further, Engels appears to be intrigued by the ideas of his contemporary Charles Darwin. So what? If anything, evolutionary theory helps him clarify his social analysis.



To: gao seng who wrote (177958)9/5/2001 11:12:20 PM
From: ThirdEye  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
Did you read the stuff you posted? First you claim the communists liked Darwin. Then, below, it clearly says the Soviets hated Darwin.

If pre-communist and communist philosophers embraced evolutionary theory at all, it appears to be because the dialectical nature of evolution helped justify their social ideology. It helped them convince themselves of the inevitability of their revolution.


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