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Old 12-12-2009, 09:27 AM   #9
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Default Re: Cordwainer Smith: Transhumanist when Transhumanism wasn't Cool

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Originally Posted by Randyman View Post
This is surprising how, exactly?
Bernal was an unrepentant Soviet sympathizer, it seems. Lysenkoist, even.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_De...tical_activism

Less extreme, but Julian Huxley who coined the term was into central planning:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_...enics_and_race
Huh, coined "ethnic group" too. Was left wing in general though not Soviet -- first UNESCO director, and founded World Wildlife Fund. NOT a Lysenkoist.
J. B. S. Haldane was Marxist as wel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.B.S._...olitical_views
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