[Marxism] People's History of Science

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rod Holt wrote:
> I hate to get into this, but Conners's book is the most wrong-headed,
> irritating book I can remember trying to read. First off, he
> deliberately confuses science with technology.

no time to get deep into this at the moment, but i LIKE that Conners
tried to "confuse" this. i know Rod would agree that a lot of great
science came out of screwing around with "technology". so what's the
problem?  i think -- as practiced in academia --  the techno / science
split should be broken down.

and i always say the best engineers i've met are physicists by training.
wonder why....

but who knows, maybe i will hate the book too once i get deep into it.

les schaffer

^^^^^
CB; Then there's the idea that Marxists place emphasis on unity of theory
and practice.




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