So....poor science besides the point, Lysenko was hailed as an icon by Stalin and the Communists in charge.
And what does this have to do with contemporary America, and Global Warming?
11.
"Lysenkoism was “politically correct” (a term invented by Lenin) because it was consistent with certain broader Marxist doctrines. Marxists wanted to believe that heredity had a limited role even among humans, and that
human characteristics changed by living under socialism would be inherited by subsequent generations of humans. Thus would be created the selfless new Soviet man."
Forbes, Op.Cit.
And the malleability of human nature is the hallmark of every totalist view: communism, fascism, socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism.....
Lysenko had to be hailed!
12. Communist Revolution is based on the idea of transforming human nature. “The
New Soviet man or
New Soviet person (
Russian: новый советский человек), as postulated by the ideologists of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was an
archetype of a person with certain qualities that were said to be emerging as dominant among all citizens of the
Soviet Union, irrespective of the country's long-standing cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, creating a single
Soviet people,
Soviet nation.
[1]
New Soviet man - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
a.
Leon Trotsky wrote in his
Literature and Revolution [2] :
"The human species, the sluggish Homo sapiens, will once again enter the stage of radical reconstruction and become in his own hands the object of the most complex methods of artificial selection and psychophysical training... Man will make it his goal...to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman, if you will." New Soviet man - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
b. In 1969,
Hillary Rodham gave the student commencement address at Wellesley in which she said that “ for too long our leaders have used politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible….We’re not interested in social reconstruction;
it’s human reconstruction. http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1969/053169hillary.html