Word: dogmas
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...several scenes, points the direction to Wall Street as well as to the cafeteria. One of the show's subplots involves the quarrels between the aspiring lady capitalist of the 1980s and her boyfriend, a self-styled Che Guevara--ever-ready to spout bleeding heart liberalism and Marxist structuralist dogma...
Anthropological dogma holds that modern man, ancestor of all people living today, appeared rather suddenly in Europe 35,000 years ago, spread south ward into Africa and eastward into Asia, and finally, no more than 12,000 years ago, crossed the Bering land bridge to America. Now an anthropological heretic offers another theory. Modern man, says Jeffrey Goodman, has actually been in America for at least 50,000 years. He crossed the Bering bridge the other way, bringing his culture to Europe and Asia...
...four other attacks on sociobiology. It is not just an altercation between rival camps in the academic community. Their demands are not for discussion but for subordination. If "Evolutionary Biology" is removed from the Core Curriculum, it will be a victory for ideology over academic freedom. If political dogma dominates and bullies science as it did in the frightening example of Lysenko, the freedom to know will have no meaning...
...paradox could hardly be more striking. Poland, a Soviet bloc country whose economy is based on Marxist-Leninist dogma, is appealing to the capitalist West for financial aid. Warsaw has asked Washington, to which it is already in hock for $ 1.2 billion in assorted credits, for another $3 billion in assistance. The Polish government clearly needs the cash: it must pay off foreign lenders and continue to finance the food imports required to keep the Poles from becoming more restive than they...
...without finishing anything." Obviously he was right--although the republican and communist revolutions of modern history have derived their inspiration in part from abstract theorization and radical principles, the forces that toppled the ancien regimes in both Europe and Asia depended primarily on the power politics and dogma that motivated insurgents among both peasantry and gentry...