Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 18:26:43 -0500 (EST)
From: ROSSERJB-AT-VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU
Subject: M&E, Lenin, Trotsky, and Lysenko


     I sent this out before, but it never appeared.  
I apologize if it is a duplicate.
     In response to "Left Opposition" Piranha/Sayles:
1)  You have characterized my position well.  I sharply
distinguish Marx and Engels from Lenin and Stalin.  I do
believe that the latter revised and ruined the valuable
parts of the former.
2)  Trotsky was a Menshevik before he threw in with Lenin.
3)  I think you are wrong about Lysenko, especially with your
homosexuality example.  Lysenko thought that learned behavior
was more readily inheritable than do most geneticists.  Thus
he would have said homosexuality was more learned than inherited.
Barkley Rosser


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