Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 18:34:03 -0500 (EST)
From: ROSSERJB-AT-VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU
Subject: Engels, Marx, Morgan, and Lisa


     Another missing duplicate message, apologies again
if necessary.
     In response to Lisa Rogers:
     Thought you were gone cause Chris B. said that you were
not "co-mod" anymore.
     Gee, here I try to say something nice about old Friedie
Engels, after getting so many people upset, and you go and
trash him again.  Well, you may be right that Engels got it
from Marx who got from Morgan.  I know the latter was the main
source, but at least Engels wrote the book and I think there
is some stuff in there not in Morgan, but I bow to greater authority.
     You are correct that Darwin did not really have "phase transitions"
and was a gradualist continuous evolution person, although some have
argued that that is an oversimplification.  This is a very complicated
question.  For a more thorough discussion by me of the relation 
between Marx and Darwin and the continuity/discontinuity issue, see
"The dialogue between the economic and the ecologic theories of 
evolution," _Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization_, March
1992, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 195-216 or my
_From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities_,
1991, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Barkley Rosser, politically questionable, snooty/snotty ranter


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