Re: [Marxism] re: Science and Pseudoscience

["Edward Crawford" <tcrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Sedgwick in Engalnd a devoted Trotskyist, (state cap tendency) was
bitterly opposed to all the trendy Laingians saying that people were "sick",
really ill, not just the victims of society. Sedgwick himself, a brilliant
man, always on the edge, died tragically in 1983 or 4 I think. Some of his
writings are on the web at the MIA site but most of his psychological stuff
is in copyright and I have had no reply from the people who own it. Such a
loss.
Ted Crawford
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Olmsted" <ctandjo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
any behavior to neurobiology
must be reactionary.
   This is a fall back to the old nature/nurture debate. It is also
simplistic thinking that voids a very important feature of materialism.  The
biology of the brain is every bit as much a part of the material conditions
of mental life as social experience.  To deny that is to imply that the
brain is some sort of neutral mass simply filled with social influences.



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