• QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    I should mention many Utopian Socialists wanted scientists to rule society, but their dreams failed and were coopted. They didn’t understand the class character of the state.

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      7 months ago

      Well you’d just have to convince the upper class that science is their friend. Which is arguably what we have.

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        7 months ago

        Science is their friend. Companies pay people to make studies that make their dangerous products look good. Think tanks run studies to figure out how to keep the economy growing at the expense of working people.