Hey Politicalchic,
I thought you were supposedly bashing my brains in.
In boxing the boxer who fails to react to counterpunches is the one who is getting their brains bashed in.
First of all....I have not used the phrase "bashing my brains in."
That would suppose that you had said organ in the first place.
Secondly....I have proven over and over that you were wrong on both counts:
1.
your claim that Stephen Gould was not a Marxist...
and
2.
that Marxist theory was not the basis for his attempt to support Darwin's theory, by altering it via 'Punctuated Equilibrium'
Really I have. You're just too stupid to realize same....or too dishonest to admit it.
BUT....I do take a guilty pleasure in rubbing your face in it, so....even though I have given you far more education than I should allot.....here, one more time....and using the sources in this thread itself.....
Take notes:
1.' The Socialist Worker Online mentions that Gould was on the advisory boards of the journalRethinking Marxism and the Brecht Forum, sponsor of the New York Marxist School.' Gasper, Phil, ‘A scientist of the people’, Socialist Worker Online, 7 June 2002, p8
2. '.... Gould followed in the footsteps of one of his intellectual heroes, Frederick Engels--Karl Marx's close collaborator....' Ibid.
3. "... Gould also shared Engels' enthusiasm for understanding the natural world
dialectically--in other words, consisting of complex and dynamic interactive processes…classical laws of dialectics [formulated by Engels]..." Ibid.
4. "WITH FELLOW paleontologist Niles Eldredge,
Gould proposed the theory of "punctuated equilibrium." ...Gould freely admitted that he was attracted to the theory because of his knowledge of Hegel and Marx."
Ibid.
5. " A famous quote made by Gould is that within his Jewish-Marxist family subculture he learned his Marxism ‘at his daddy's knee’... , it is clear from Gould’s work that he was strongly influenced by Marxist beliefs. In his book The Culture of Critique, evolutionist author Kevin MacDonald writes that
Gould has ‘acknowledged that his theory of evolution as punctuated equilibria was attractive to him as a Marxist because it posited periodic revolutionary upheavals in evolution rather than conservative, gradualist change’
MacDonald, Kevin, ‘The Culture of Critique’
6. Many agree that
Gould allowed his Marxist philosophy to influence his science. He has even been labelled, by other evolutionists, ‘muddle-headed, hypocritical, blinded by Marxism, and rhetorically dishonest’
Stephen Jay Gould: Marxist and Atheist? by David Noebel, Summit Ministries, 23 March 2007
7. " The figure he most closely resembled in these respects was the British biologist of the 1930’s, J. B. S. Haldane, a founder of the modern genetical theory of evolution, a wonderful essayist on science for the general public, and an idiosyncratic Marxist and columnist for the Daily Worker who finally split with the Communist Party over its demand that scientific claims follow Party doctrine. What characterizes Steve Gould’s work is its consistent radicalism....
....
Steve’s theory of episodic evolution and his adherence to Marx’s theory of historical stages.. . He identified himself as a Marxist .... by insisting on his adherence to a Marxist viewpoint, he took the opportunity offered to him by his immense fame and legitimacy as a public intellectual to make a broad public think again about the validity of a Marxist analysis.
Stephen Jay Gould? What Does it Mean to Be a Radical? :: Monthly Review
8. "And in The Panda's Thumb Gould points out that: "In the Soviet Union, for example, scientists are trained with a very different philosophy of change - the so-called dialectical laws, reformulated by Engels from Hegel's philosophy.
The dialectical laws are explicitly punctuational.... but it suggests that change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stresses that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point..... Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution. Eldredge and I were fascinated to learn that many Russian palaeontologists support a model similar to our punctuated equilibria."..... Above all he provided more scientific evidence that strengthens the position of Marxism, for it proves that dialectical materialism is not a fantastic notion thought up by Marx himself, but it is simply the reflection of the real material world as it is.
A tribute to a great scientist: Stephen Jay Gould
9. Gould himself, like his colleagues Richard Lewontin and Steven Rose, freely acknowledged Marxist sympathies ....
American National Biography Online: Gould, Stephen Jay
10. "The late Stephen Jay Gould; jewish palaeontologist, public intellectual and marxist,... Gould’s involvement in Marxist causes; such as Students for a Democratic Society (along with his celebrated jewish confrere Richard Lewontin who still regularly writes for Trotksyite rags such as the ‘New Left Review’
,... Gould was; like Lewontin, prolific in his support of Marxist causes...."
Semitic Controversies: Lies, Damned Lies and Stephen Jay Gould
11. "Gould along with other Marxist and socialist critics ... the method he employed which is very clearly compatible with, if not
derived from, Marxist methodology... Throughout his life Gould continued to participate in socialist forums, such as the annual Socialist Scholars Conference and events at the Brecht Forum (on whose board he served) including the meeting on the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto."
An Appreciation of Stephen Jay Gould | Solidarity
Note, especially, how #3,4,5,7,8, and 11 speak to his derivation of 'Punctuated Equilibrium' from Marx's theory of history.
Go ahead.....deny.
Wanna retract
1.
your claim that Stephen Gould was not a Marxist...
and
2.
that Marxist theory was not the basis for his attempt to support Darwin's theory, by altering it via 'Punctuated Equilibrium'
Moron.
