File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9802, message 481


Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:35:53 +0000
From: James Heartfield <James-AT-heartfield.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re; M-I; Left conservatism?


In message <199802262355_MC2-34E1-16C-AT-compuserve.com>, james m blaut
<70671.2032-AT-CompuServe.COM> writes
>I've never entered the lists of the "science wars" but I root for the
>science side. 

In message <CMM.0.90.0.888560799.kbevans-AT-panix3.panix.com>, boddhisatva
<kbevans-AT-panix.com> writes
>       Your problem may be that you are confusing socio-biology and
>science.  They are by no means one and the same.  Socio-biology may be an
>investigation that uses scientific discoveries, but it is not science. 

The two most sensible comments. As if Marxism had anything to fear from
the natural sciences. The 'anti-foundationalism' and 'anti-essentialism'
of these post-modernists is just an attack on reason itself - and that
would entail an attack on Marxism just as much.

The left conservatives are the ones who want to elevate mysticism and
obscurantism to the status of good coin: the pomos. All power to Alan
Sokal, I say. 
-- 
James Heartfield


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