Hari-- Thank you for the information. I will check into it. The charge of "reductionism" has been raised against Marx as well as Darwin since the emergence of their major works. The accusation is more than baseless. It's reactionary, designed to preserve an ideology threatened by actual inquiry and the accumulated evidence. To be sure, there can be reductionist uses of Marx's work and Darwin's work, "scientific" racism after all has survived for centuries in the form of eugenics, social-Darwinism, etc., but the impulse behind the reductionist effort is ideological, and forms the meta=theory upon which distorted "science" is hung.
I don't think such a judgement can be applied to historical materialism itself, nor to Darwin's work. OTOH I think clearly Lysenko designs his science to secure an ideology. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34826): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34826 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110792212/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
