Discover the World of Trotsky
Mar. 18th, 2006 01:47 pmFrom "The Formalist School" and "Revolution and Social Art", Literature and Revolution, tr. Rose Strunsky, and reprinted in The Modern Tradition (ed. Richard Ellmann--yes, the Joyce biographer--and Charles Feidelson, Jr).
Shklovsky's destruction of Marxism in five points reminds us very much of those articles which were published against Darwinism in the magazine "The Orthodox Review" in the good old days. If the doctrine of the origin of man from the monkey were true, wrote the learned Bishop Nikanor of Odessa thirty or forty years ago, then our grandfathers would have had distinct signs of a tail, or would have noticed such a characteristic in their grandfathers and grandmothers. Second, as everybody knows, monkeys can only give birth to monkeys. [...] Fifth, Darwinism is incorrect, because it contradicts Formalism--I beg your pardon. I meant to say the formal decisions of the universal church conferences.
OH SNAP. XD
God, I loves me some Trotskyite snark.
Shklovsky's destruction of Marxism in five points reminds us very much of those articles which were published against Darwinism in the magazine "The Orthodox Review" in the good old days. If the doctrine of the origin of man from the monkey were true, wrote the learned Bishop Nikanor of Odessa thirty or forty years ago, then our grandfathers would have had distinct signs of a tail, or would have noticed such a characteristic in their grandfathers and grandmothers. Second, as everybody knows, monkeys can only give birth to monkeys. [...] Fifth, Darwinism is incorrect, because it contradicts Formalism--I beg your pardon. I meant to say the formal decisions of the universal church conferences.
OH SNAP. XD
God, I loves me some Trotskyite snark.
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