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On 2/1/2026 8:26 PM, Bruce wrote:
On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 20:25:34 -0600, Bryan Simmons
<bryangsimmons@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxpkOym11pw
The video also shows that when you place ideology above pure science,
you lose, like the Soviet Union lost. Stalin's misinterpretation of a
Marxian conjecture that was itself flawed, led to famines in the USSR.
Stalin didn't care about famines as long as Stalin had enough to eat.
Now, which American ruler does that remind me of?
I expected folks to make the connection. That is simple enough. Marx
went way overboard in the nature versus nurture balance. He suggested
that nature was far less important than made sense, certainly by the
1930s. I've studied Marx only from a political economy angle, as I don't
get the philosophy stuff--having never studied Hegel. The Stalinist
biological ideology placed heritable epigenetics above regular genetics,
and that mindset was derived from Marx. It was completely absurd. I
think it's obvious that if heritable epigenetics does exist, that it's
an epiphenomenon of regular Darwinian genetics, and in any case has a
very small effect in the short term.
Even though we're talking about the USSR, and Stalin came from Georgia,
it's about Russia. Stalin came from the suburbs, but he acted Russian.
Sure, there was stupid ideology over science that was derived from Marx,
and all that crap about a dictatorship of the proles, but that all just
fit neatly into a new vision of a Rus, ruled from Moscow with a brutal, authoritarian fist.
In retrospect, the Cold War was never really about communism. It wasn't
about Soviet imperialism, but *Russian* imperialism.
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