Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:11:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Alex Trotter <uburoi-AT-panix.com> Subject: Marxism-Einsteinism Perhaps relativity has an aesthetic dimension to it, but Einstein's science is of a different order from that of a Marx or a Freud (remember the "hards" and the "softs"?). I don't know enough about Einstein's biography, but I suppose you could say all three of these guys had the Promethean/Faustian itch big-time. (Ueber)menschen to the core. It seems easier trying to relate the work of Marx and Freud to each other than to relate either of them to Einstein, though. Einstein may have called himself a socialist, but he weren't no marxist. He also wore the labels of pacifism and zionism. And wasn't he also in philosophical agreement with Ernst Mach? For that sin, good leninists everywhere should want to flay him with the knout. And as for Romantic tragedy, we all know that gentle scientist helped bring a rather hideous technological offspring into the world, one which the (zero)workers' movement probably won't find much use for. --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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