Brian McAndrews wrote:
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> A friend sent me this article; he felt that Time didn't provide a thorough
> overview of their 'man of the century'.
> Happy New Year.
> Brian McAndrews
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> >Why Socialism?
> >By Albert Einstein
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> >>From Monthly Review, New York, May, 1949.
[snip]
Monthly Review is (or at least, when I followed it in the late
1960s, was) a fine periodical, and the Monthly Review Press
published solid books. I hope Monthly Review is still
alive and well!
In remembering great socialist academicians of the
20th Century, let us also remember Joseph Needham,
who devoted most of his life to the study of what
he titled his great series of books: _Science
and Civilization in China_.
Needham's orienting
question was: Why, when China was in many ways more
advanced than Europe even in the 1500s, did Europe "take
off" but China remained in feudalism? His answer,
which he did not like, was that Capitalism seems
to have been the engine which drove not just
the West's economic exploitation of the whole world,
but also the great flowering of genuine
Enlightenment in the West. (Of course, this
conclusion does not imply that, today, we
need to keep cranking the starter motor which
got us going, and -- to follow out this analogy which
just came into my head -- may now be serving
primarily to strip our starter system gears.)
\brad mccormick
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