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Hi Richard This is interesting stuff. I have just started a reading group for 'Capital' in which Marx's knowledge of science is clearly 19th century and the analogies don't work the way he intends. I know its a huge field but any ideas for where to start for the average non-scientist? So was your lecture recorded? or a bit more of your take on all this would be interesting. Cheers Shane ------------------------------ <lnp3%40panix.com> - *Subject*: Re: [Marxism] "Marx for Millennials" - *From*: "Levins, Richard" <human...@hsph.harvard.edu> The resurgent interest in Marxism is not limited to political economy. Concerns about the resurgence of infectious disease, the horrid pollution from the energy industry, the invasion of agriculture by the giant pharma companies, the spread of organic agriculture and alliance with peasant movements, climate change, the precarious status of scientists as laborers in the knowledge industries, the growing awareness of the metabolic rift between city and countryside, the publications with a slant toward marxist perspectives on ecology, all indicate a willingness to look critically at the way science is organized and carried out under advanced capitalism. The pattern of error in science and technology has made the scientific community aware of the need for a more complex approach to world problems than can be provided by the dominant reductionism. Journals, symposia, even whole institutes call for complexity but don't quite make it. A few weeks ago some 500 students and faculty turned out at the national university in Mexico to here me lecturer on "the threshold of complexity" from a Marxist point of view. And in April, there will be a major conference of Science for the People at U. Mass Amherst that brings together veterans of the old SftP with a new cohort.(Connect with sig...@umass.edu). The Marxist view that communists are internationalists who look out for the movement as a whole is expanding the scope of our activism and our thinking about it. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
