Caroll Cox's limitation is he has, like Chomsky, this almost quaint left-wing libertarian view about intellect, science, research and academia. Perhaps he ought to sit down and do a Marxist critique of his own career.
Now about science in an authoritarian atmosphere. Look at the Manhattan Project. MOST of it was a multi-billion dollar waste of money. Most of it was bogus research projects that never yielded a single achievement. It was done under a highly secretive and for most workers authoritarian program. After all that, two successful bomb designs emerged in time to drop them on civilian populations in Japan. I guess if the project hadn't been authoritarian, it would have ben more 'efficient' and yielded enough bombs to wipe out even more of Japan. CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
