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October 1994 the “Los Angeles Times” published a profile of Edward O. Wilson
another morning, he compares human beings to ants. Consider man’s selfishness and ambition versus the insects’ drive to help their community. They’ll sacrifice their lives for the common good, if need be.
Biology doesn’t get more basic than this, and Wilson ends the lesson amid gales of laughter by raising the subject of Marxism. Why did it fail?
“Good ideology,” he says dryly. “Wrong species.”
Robert Reich
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