On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> It does not mean we have to agree with Karl Marx, who advocated > > violence and whose worship of the state as a utopian mechanism led > > to another form of enslavement of the working class > > Learn something new every day. > Compared to Hedges' grasp of Darwin and his significance, this approaches sheer brilliance. (In his abysmal _I Don't Believe in Atheists,_ Hedges would bring up atheist claims related to biological evolution, then refute them with, "But Darwin never said this" - as if modern evolutionary biologists read Darwin the way fundamentalist Christians read the Synoptic Gospels. It was tremendously painful to read, and I didn't come close to finishing it.) -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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