> "The liberal left was very strong in academia those days," Wilson says. The
> Rousseauistic belief in human perfectibility, however, led to the Gulags,
> the killing fields of Cambodia and Fidel Castro. Now that the world knows
> all this, the left has quieted down a bit, and people like Wilson can speak
> without being shouted down.
>
Such an unresearched statement makes the book suspect for me;
Marx used french utopian socialism as a well criticised
source that he "turned upside down" just llike he did with
Hegel's ideas. Marxism has nothing to do with the belief
in human perfectability.
The Gulags, Cambodia and Fidel Castro have not much to do
with the marxian definition, but are a useful history
to point us to a future where we know how important is to safeguard
all the democratic guarantees.
elsewhere in this article human society is described as
built on ancient biogenetic characterisms, but says
people can be convince to act differently than "programmed"
such as pay more for environmentally better product.
Contradiction.
Also putting down to "human nature" where trendy people buy
their trendy property - not very convincing.
Eva
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