On 1/3/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
At times the author seems downright explicitly against the model of EB: "The idea that perfection can be achieved solely through deliberate effort and centralized control has been given the lie in biology with the success of Darwin and in economics with the failure of Marx."
Um, I think that he means Lenin. As I understand it, Marx mainly concentrated on the downside of Adam Smith's vision. He would, I expect, have been as appalled by the alienation and exploitation of the labourer under Marxism-Leninism as he was under late Victorian laissez-faire capitalism.