From: Alejandro Valle Baeza (valle@SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2006 - 00:32:45 EST
Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > > Hi Alejandro, > With heightened job competition among the most vulnerable (downard > mobility of whites now claiming jobs once beneath them, job > competition between Mexican immigrants and the minority American > working class), the eviseration of the social wage (cuts in Medicaire > and more) and the importance of accumulation by dispossession (David > Harvey), I think social Darwinism rather than vulgar, neo harmonist > economics will provide the more popular set of categories through > which social life is understood (as I argued in my dissertation). For > this reason, I think Lewontin, Rose and Kamin's Not In Our Genes is as > an important a critique as Marx's own Capital. Especially in the US. > Do note that Lewontin et al are not the dogmatic environmentalists > that they are often claimed to be. > > Yours, Rakesh Hi Rakesh, I agree with you totally. Not In Our Genes, in my view, is a book quite important and essential for any Marxian scholar. What is your dissertation about? Have you papers (from you) on the relationship between social sciences and "natural" sciences? Yours Alejandro -- Posgrado Facultad de Economía Av. Universidad 3000 Circuito interior México 04510, DF México Tel. 55-56222148 fax 55-56222158 Página web: http://usuarios.lycos.es/vallebaeza
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