If humans are organisms like every other organism - which they are - then we should expect that if there are some domains where real scientific progress is possible, then there are others where it is not.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.

We have never had class-based parties. We've had parties run by the business classes. There's slight variations. Like in the New Deal period, there was a lot of popular activism, so things shifted slightly, but not much.

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.