At 09:09 AM 3/5/00 -0500, Greg wrote:
>A slip of the finger there, Max. The first issue of Extropy Magazine was
>published in 1988 - by you and Tom.
Oops! Thanks for catching that, Greg. I suppose part of my brain was
telling my finger to type a "9" instead of an "8" -- 1988 just seems so
long ago.
>You're being too fair by far to Wells regarding his politics, I'm afraid.
>Wells was one of the founders, and because of his popularity as a writer, one
>of the most well-known members of the Fabian Society:
I'll check out the link, thanks. I probably do have a too-kind view of the
Fabians for two reasons--I never really studied them much, unlike the
Marxists, and they never directly achieved power unlike the Marxists. The
latter was partly due the British culture but also because they were
gradualists rather than revolutionaries. In the long run, though, they did
have an enduring socialist effects on British politics through the Labour
Party. That only started to crack around 1979 when Margaret Thatcher became
Prime Minister. (The Iron Lady.) If the Fabians had been in control, things
might have been just as ugly as we saw with the various manifestations of
applied Marxism.
Max
Max More, Ph.D.
President, Extropy Institute. www.extropy.org
CEO, MoreLogic Solutions. www.maxmore.com
max@maxmore.com or more@extropy.org
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