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Re: [OPE-L] Retraining Laid-Off Workers, but for What? By LOUIS UCHITELLE

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Hi Alejandro,
With heightened job competition among the most vulnerable (downard mobility of whites now claiming jobs once beneath them, job competition between Mexican immigrants and the minority American working class), the eviseration of the social wage (cuts in Medicaire and more) and the importance of accumulation by dispossession (David Harvey), I think social Darwinism rather than vulgar, neo harmonist economics will provide the more popular set of categories through which social life is understood (as I argued in my dissertation). For this reason, I think Lewontin, Rose and Kamin's Not In Our Genes is as an important a critique as Marx's own Capital. Especially in the US.
Do note that Lewontin et al are not the dogmatic environmentalists that they are often claimed to be.

Yours, Rakesh
Hi Rakesh, I agree with you totally.  Not In Our Genes, in my view,  is a book quite important and essential for any Marxian scholar. What is your dissertation about? Have you papers (from you) on the relationship between social sciences and "natural" sciences?
Yours
Alejandro
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