E.O. Wilson and Sociobiology

[Die Rote Fahne]

Well I've just heard of this, and was wondering about it. I have some clown claiming he "obliterates" Marx on human nature, etc.

Can some people explain what it is and give a marxist critique of the batshit?

Some of the guys points I'm debating are about the human "need" to compete and all sorts of inane bullshit.

As well: "Edward O. Wilson, referring to ants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant), once said that "Karl Marx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx) was right, socialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism) works, it is just that he had the wrong species"" - Wikipedia.

[Revolution starts with U]

Did Marx even make any such claim about human nature to begin with? Is this not just a simple strawman?

[Jose Gracchus]

E. O. Wilson is the ruling class' chosen ideologist in biology. His entire work consists of "just-so" stories which just happen themselves to justify modern class society on the purported basis of essential evolutionary characteristics...something which any student of revolutionary socialism, with a fully historicized analysis of capitalism, would find laughable. What was it that kept these human essentials somehow buried until the 19th c. in the social reproduction that the vast majority of humans participated in their day to day lives? One will have to find the sociobiological root of serfdom next, I suppose. :rolleyes:

Read Stephen J. Gould as the antidote.