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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1994 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
1955 Marxism and human sociobiology: the perspecive of economic reforms in China / Zhang Boshu. p. cm.(SUNY series in philosophy and biology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-2003-5 (acid-free).ISBN 0-7914-2004-3 (pbk.: acid-free) 1. Communism. 2. CommunismChina. 3. Sociobiology. 4. Marxian economics. I. Title. II. Series. HX73.C4454 1994 335.43'45dc2093-23450 CIP
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Contents
Foreword "How to Read Zhang Boshu's Marxism and Human Sociobiology"
by David Edward Shaner
vii
Preface
xiii
Introduction
1
Chapter 1 Reforms: Understanding the Origins of our Contemporary Theoretical Dilemma
13
Chapter 2 Historical Evidence
27
Chapter 3 Commodities and Human Nature: "Labor-for-Living"
41
Chapter 4 Commodities and Human Nature: The Transformation from "Labor-for-Living" to "Labor-for-Profit"
49
Chapter 5 Marx's Philosophical Anthropology
61
Chapter 6 Historical Materialism: A Defective Demonstration
69
Chapter 7 Insights from Human Sociobiology
85
Chapter 8 A New Challenge: Cultural-Ethical Issues
99
Chapter 9 The Possibilities and Difficulties of Combining Marxism and Human Sociobiology
113
Chapter 10 Return to Reality
123
Notes
143
Glossary
157
Bibliography
167
Index
177
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Foreword "How to Read Zhang Boshu's Marxism and Human Sociobiology"
by David Edward Shaner
Almost immediately after the publication of E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975), heated debate arose between sympathizers of Wilson's proposed synthesis and a diverse group of critics who believed that there was something mischievously wrong with even proposing a research agenda that combined evolutionary theory; ethology, and genetics in order to better understand the biological basis of human behavior. Two of the most well-known critics of sociobiology happened to be colleagues of Professor Wilson within the Department of Biology at Harvard University. Professors Stephen Jay Gould (paleobiology) and Richard Lewontin (genetics) were not only two of the most vocal critics of sociobiology, but also they were influential shapers of the debate, insofar as their much publicized sympathy with Marxist political ideology rallied the far left in such a way that Wilson was typecast as someone arguing his thesis from the political perspective of the far right. Ironically, anyone who knows Professor Wilson recognizes that he is virtually apolitical with respect to his professional endeavors in biology and entomology. His inspiration behind writing
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