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Broken Donating Member (51 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 11:45 PM
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You can read Peter Kropotkin.

In his writings he shows how evolution is what gave us our morals, solidarity and cooperation.

But since his views on evolution to not square up with our currently held political ideology, he is left far back on the shelf.
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  -Darwin and the Left durutti  Feb-23-04 10:42 PM   #0 
  - This is probably above my head as I'm not...  ldoolin   Feb-23-04 11:12 PM   #1 
  - Do you believe in civilization?  cprise   Feb-23-04 11:41 PM   #2 
  - Well, this is how I see it...  durutti   Feb-24-04 09:09 AM   #5 
  - <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  Broken   Feb-23-04 11:45 PM   #3 
  - My problems w/ Kropotkin...  durutti   Feb-24-04 09:41 AM   #8 
     - >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  Broken   Feb-24-04 07:34 PM   #23 
  - Well you flunked science 101  Peregrine   Feb-23-04 11:51 PM   #4 
  - Forgive me, Your Highness!  durutti   Feb-24-04 09:35 AM   #7 
  - cooperation as opposed to competition  el_gato   Feb-24-04 09:26 AM   #6 
  - you appear to be infected by the neo-con's obsession with darwin  treepig   Feb-24-04 09:43 AM   #9 
  - I said as much in my original post. n/t  durutti   Feb-24-04 09:46 AM   #10 
     - i guess my point was "why?"  treepig   Feb-24-04 10:02 AM   #11 
        - When people go "oh, its Just a theory"  VTMechEngr   Feb-24-04 12:04 PM   #17 
  - I don't see any connection between Darwin and "the Left"  pmbryant   Feb-24-04 10:09 AM   #12 
  - Natural Selection isnt really a theory.  K-W   Feb-24-04 10:20 AM   #13 
  - Evolutionary psychology is indeed very speculative,  megatherium   Feb-24-04 07:50 PM   #24 
  - No connections  Tims   Feb-24-04 11:03 AM   #14 
  - The real problems come out of survival of the fittest  starroute   Feb-24-04 11:39 AM   #15 
  - Social Darwinism is simply a misunderstanding of the theory  K-W   Feb-24-04 11:41 AM   #16 
  - Here we go again  Tims   Feb-24-04 03:32 PM   #18 
     - The elitism is within species, not between species  starroute   Feb-24-04 06:16 PM   #20 
        - But but but...  durutti   Feb-24-04 07:25 PM   #22 
        - ++++++++++++++++++++++  Broken   Feb-24-04 07:55 PM   #25 
           - Why do you think  Tims   Feb-25-04 12:06 PM   #28 
        - I beg to differ  Tims   Feb-25-04 11:36 AM   #27 
        - No, they're not.  JackDragna   Feb-25-04 12:18 PM   #29 
  - Forget Darwin for a moment  The River   Feb-24-04 06:12 PM   #19 
     - Very acute -- and exactly right  starroute   Feb-24-04 06:18 PM   #21 
        - Thanks..  The River   Feb-24-04 08:03 PM   #26 
 

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