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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 07:11:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Dialectics of Nature - Forwarded


Adam Rose wrote:

> Jerry wrote that the ISJ article on Engels said nothing new.

I did NOT write that. What I actually wrote was the following:
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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 09:18:55 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: re vanguards

Adam Rose wrote:

> Lisa,
> Alex Callinicos has written an article in our theoretical journal, the
> International Socialism Journal, on Darwin, Evolution, and the Origin
> of the Human Species.
> I will read it ( and hear him speak on this subject ) when I go
> to Marxism 96 the week after next.
> Anyway, if Callinicos is up to his usual standard, this will be the best
> argued, updated Marxist defence of Engels you will find anywhere. All
> your criticisms like "where's your facts ?" you correctly made of me should
> be answered, so you will be testing your ideas against the strongest defence
> of Engels, rather than my weak one.

This sounds like hero-worship to me. You haven't even read the article,
but you have confidence what it will demonstrate.
<snip>
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Jerry



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