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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould, celebrated biologist
Marxist* Biologist
also quite bizarrely close friends with Alan Dershowitz :thinking-about-it:
Not sure if Marxist is a good descriptor. From some descriptions rad lib or socdem might be more accurate
Gould did not openly identify himself as a Marxist nor did he claim to use dialectical reasoning. Nevertheless many features of Gould’s thought are marked by an influence of Marxism and its dialectical approach.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/1054.html
:sadness:
I listened to this talk a while ago and he very much seems to think like one
