Feather-Duster Brainwashing

have to be based. Lenin, so far as my readings reveal, never looked into a book on these subjects.

I am not pretending that, should they look even now, they would find any lack of doubts and unanswered questions. But they were ignorant even of the terms in which these questions are presented. The whole subject as studied now, and for many years past—the distinction, for instance, between hereditary and acquired characters, the twin tendencies toward dominance and submission, the concept of suppressed hostilities and fears, the tendency to gang up under a leader, the survival of infant fixations—all that is today comprised in the phrase “behavioral science” was non-existent for the mind of Karl Marx.

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have to be based. Lenin, so far as my readings reveal, never looked into a book on these subjects.

I am not pretending that, should they look even now, they would find any lack of doubts and unanswered questions. But they were ignorant even of the terms in which these questions are presented. The whole subject as studied now, and for many years past—the distinction, for instance, between hereditary and acquired characters, the twin tendencies toward dominance and submission, the concept of suppressed hostilities and fears, the tendency to gang up under a leader, the survival of infant fixations—all that is today comprised in the phrase “behavioral science” was non-existent for the mind of Karl Marx.