On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM, hari kumar wrote: > > However I recall an instance where you objected strongly to what Mark > Baugher was saying on the term as applied to the question of underlying > bases-superstucture
> > issues. There Mark was citing the famous letters of Engels - clarifying a > few years after Marx had died if I recall. H- in that matter, Mark claimed that identifying a shared basis for uneven and combined development, permanent revolution, and struggles for self-determination in the conflict between the means of production and social relations of production - as Marx identified the onset of an era of revolutionary struggle-was reductionist. He produced the quote from Engels but IMO missed the point is that all the variables MB characterizes as "superstructure" are in fact expressions of the social relations that Marx identified as a determining characteristic intrinsic to the mode of production. National identity is intrinsic to establishing a domestic market. As for our resident QAnon/Grover Furr acolyte-- well as I pointed out he makes various claims and when challenged either goes silent or provides a mouthful of equivocation and calls that evidence. Months ago over on Michael Roberts' blog, Grover Jr. claimed undocumented workers had displaced African-Americans from access to employment as janitors. He never provided any evidence despite being challenged to do so. On this site, he produces the "ifs" "perhaps" and "maybes" that are worthy of a Fox news talking head, like Newt Gingrich. Waddington's body of work is very interesting but "genetic assimilation"a) does not prove " that species adapt to environmental changes faster than can be explained by random genetic mutation which are then selected for survival in the new environment." b) was regarded by Waddington himself to be identifying a genetic process in keeping with Darwinian evolution c) was regarded by some evolutionary biologists to be an iteration of Lamarckian theory. It is well known that heat and stress can alter the development of an embryo. Among other things the variations in heat can alter gender proportions in embryonic populations. It is accepted, I believe, that applications of heat and stress can cause the expressions of characteristics that are genetically based but normally suppressed or dormant absent the application of the stress. Waddington himself agreed that most structural changes in an organism were initiated by genetic mutation, which should tell us what we need to know about time frames. What I'd like to know if the genome of Waddington's fruit flies were ever examined and compared to the genomes of a control for the purpose of determining if the heat and stress had produced a mutation or the expression of an already existing trait. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34836): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34836 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110792212/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
