The following is the first of an exchange of emails that
I had with Alan Carling , a sociology lecturer at the University
of Bradford (http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/ihs/acarling.html).
He is an editor for Science & Society, and the journal
Imprints (http://www.imprints.org.uk/).
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To: Jim Farmelant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 18:30:04 +
Subject: Re: Selectionism: Me, Popper, and Hayek
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Monty Python on "Bombing for Peace"
OK, George, make with the friendly bombs
Terry Jones
Sunday February 17, 2002
The Observer
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To prevent terrorism by dropping bombs on Iraq is such
an obvious idea that I can't think
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From: Alan Carling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Carling says:
The final set of questions you pose seem to me the central ones for any
21st Century egalitarian. My worry is essentially this: if Competitive
Primacy is tr
Mr. Carling,
If I might comment further on your thesis, I think you ignore the first clause of Marx
and Engels famous aphorism below in your development of a sort of absolute
"unintentionality" in the development of human society. M and E say people "make their
own history...". This implies so
Dear Mr Carling.
I am on a couple of lists with Jim Farmelant, and he has forwarded yuor preview of
your book _The Proof of the Pudding : Reason and Value in Social Evolution to the
lists. So, I have been developing some comments.
The first point I would make is that culture is a mechanism by
On the necessity of socialism
Author: Sam Webb, national chairman, Communist Party USA
People's Weekly World Newspaper, Feb 16, 2002
During the CPUSA's pre-convention period about a year ago, we had a rather lively
discussion of socialism in the party and in our publications, and th
Here is what seems to be a significant error in Diamond's thesis ( I quote Carling's
discussion of Diamond)
Kottak points out in his basic anthro text ( _Cultural Anthropology_,1991) that
domestication of plants and animals begins somewhere between 12 and 10,000 years ago
in Southwest Asia ( "
At 20/02/02 15:19 -0500,
>On the necessity of socialism
>
>Author: Sam Webb, national chairman, Communist Party USA
> People's Weekly World Newspaper, Feb 16, 2002
There is much that is correct in this article. I appreciate periodically
being able to read position statments from the CPUSA eve
