Re: PM Chrétien on memetic change

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed 18 Jun 2003 - 16:34:46 GMT

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    >From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade.t.smith@verizon.net>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: PM Chrétien on memetic change
    >Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:47:54 -0400
    >
    >http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/18/politics/
    >18MEMO.html?pagewanted=print&position=
    >
    >"You have to look at history as an evolution of society," Prime Minister
    >Jean Chrétien told reporters after a meeting of his cabinet.
    >
    >
    Sounds Hegelian or Marxian to me. Didn't Hegel and Marx search for progressive laws of history whereby societies evolve involving either a dialectic or thesis and antitheis yielding synthesis or the dialectical materialism of class struggle?

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