I agree with you, Joseph (though not sure about Shaw, he wrote some 
pretty good stuff).

I decided to focus here on race because I THOUGHT people would "get 
it" much more easily ...

Mitchel


At 08:56 AM 2/21/2007, you wrote:
>Mitchell I think you'll find that if you look closely enough and the 
>genetics and intelligence issue you'll find that, not only is there 
>no such thing as race,  there is no such thing as genetic 
>differences in intelligence full stop. Intelligence itself is an 
>ideological construct rather like money. Like money some people have 
>more of it than others and like money it can be inherited. It 
>appears as an ideology in the latter part of the 19th century when 
>all the property was bought up so to speak and the professional 
>middle class, Hobsbawm's  nouvelle couche sociale,  needed a 
>justification for privilege. So you had Francis Amasa Walker 
>president of MIT teaching his students about the rent of (their) 
>ability, their property was their ability and in Britain you had 
>George Bernard Shaw writing about socialism as the "paradise for the able".