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...more penetrating knowledge of himself than any other man who ever lived or was ever likely to live." Surely Freud's concept of the superego was inspired by Nietzsche's ubermensch or superman. Further, argues Kaufmann the petty iconoclast, Nietzsche's will to power provoked Freud to posit the "death instinct" as a second principle motivating human behavior...
...question must be asked: How can any honest dialogue about race and class be conducted in the most advanced capitalist country without so much as a single reference to the commodity-structure of production which generates these insane class conflicts and racial antagonisms? Therefore, to posit race and class as binary opposites defeats the whole purpose of trying to understand the present oppression of Afro-American people and fall into the ideological trick-bag of the dominant white society...
...assertion that somehow massive cuts can be made in city expenditures without affecting services is so twisted that it casts shadows on the credibility of those who posit it. Cambridge is not running a posh, private academy for its school children. It merely desires to provide them with libraries, remedial reading and other services that hardly qualify as frills...
...each instance the miscarriage occurred immediately after areas near their homes were sprayed. The women's doctors signed affadavits and provided elaborate case histories which indicate that the dioxin probably caused the miscarriages. Women in other sprayed areas have given birth to severely deformed children, and again doctors posit no causes other than the dioxin...
...slanders and half-truths go unrebutted. Ms. Rosenthal represents two political organizations, the Committee Against Racism and the Sociobiology Study Group, part of Science for the People of Boston, yet she dares to continually attack those who dispute her brand of ideological orthodoxy with being "unscientific." She seems to posit some grand conspiracy advocating "immigration restriction, eugenics, imperialism, and anti-communism," originating in Spenser's Social Darwinism, continuing with the actions of "Nazi biologist[s]," and exhibiting itself today in "Arthur Jensen's revival of the doctrine of black genetic inferiority, thereby initiating a new wave of academic racism...