Re: Science, ethnics and the left

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Sat Nov 23 2002 - 20:22:19 MST


2002-11-23 12:23:57, Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
>I wouldn't call the left the dissident side of the spectrum through
>most of the 20th century. In fact, being non-left has been
>academically troublesome in many places and fields. I suggest that you
>read Hayek's brilliant essay _The Intellectuals and Socialism_ (1945)
>for his theory of why the academic mainstream was so red. I warmly
>recommend this short essay to everybody - to the left and right - as a
>forerunner of memetics and a roadmap for how to make transhumanism
>respectable.

The Intellectuals and Socialism,
FWIW, is available at
http://www.conservativeforum.org/EssaysForm.asp?ID=6096 .



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