1848+: Last and First Men

Darwinism= Social Darwinism, Liberal Confusion Over Darwinism

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Amazon review of Kant’s Politics, on the issue of ‘Freedom’s Causality

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A post at Darwiniana, in relation to a Monthly Review book on intelligent design, What is materialism?

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A new book on Intelligent Design, from Monthly Review

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One of the enduring confusions of the left has been the relationship of Marx and Darwin. This is partly the result of Engels’ views which were not quite concordant with those of Marx. Engels’ somewhat eclectic writings proceed on the one hand toward a distinctly post-Hegelian version of materialism and dialectics, and yet on the [...]

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This is a selection from an essay in The Hegel Myths And Legends, and gives some background on the ‘end of history’ mythology current in neo-liberal circles.  (scanned text, not always adequate: check out the text) The End Of History And The Return Of History Philip Grier Through the summer and fall of 1989, Hegel [...]

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The Communist Manifesto Turns 160 By Barbara Ehrenreich The Manifesto makes for quaint reading today. All that talk about “production,” for example: Did they actually make things in those days? Did the proletariat really slave away in factories instead of call centers? But on one point Marx and Engels proved right: within capitalist societies, or [...]

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