"The Science of Liberty"

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spike
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"The Science of Liberty"

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This book is by Timothy Ferris. Some of you are familiar with him. He has been described by the Christian Science Monitor as "the best popular science writer in the English language today". The theme of the book is the parallel development of science and democracy; each reinforcing the other. True scientific inquire can not happen without democracy and the liberty it bestows. In turn, democracy and liberty are enhance by unhindered scientific inquiry.

One chapter in Ferris' book is "Totalitarian Antiscience", which mentions that Marxism is antiscience. In most respect that explains why Marxism has become marginalized and irrelevance in the modern world. Marxism doesn't accept Einstein's relativism because Marxism is taken to be an absolute.

I am thinking of PN 's issue 107 and an article in it entitle "French Post-Marxism". I don't think France could have ever become Marxist or communism because of it entrenchment in Science and its love for it. After all some of the greatest scientific developments have come from France. One of its greatest scientist was Lavoisier, the founder of modern chemistry.
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