The Darwin debate and the left On Intelligent Design and the Left Cats, Dogs and Creationism By JEAN BRICMONT “The criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.” –Karl Marx (Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right). Jean Bricmont reviews the MR book on ID. I have commented on [...]
Entries from November 2008
The Darwin debate and the left
November 15th, 2008 · No Comments
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Reverse gear dialectic
November 8th, 2008 · No Comments
From Darwiniana, Reverse gear dialectic…. In the middle of all the pundit comparisons to the era of FDR and the great depression, it is forgotten that that period had a behind the scenes driver in the surging left, the second to third Internationale, what to say of Boshevism soon to be Stalinism. The contemporary scene [...]
The tragedy of the Marxist left
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
One of the components of Marxism that led to much of its later confusion can be seen in Marx’s rejection of ethical idealism, a strain of Marx’s thinking that is too often disguised and unaddressed, and which invariably takes its idealistic fans by surprise, if it enters consciousness at all. The grounds for all of [...]
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