[...] When the Great Leap Forward was launched in China, there was a revolutionary fever for Lysenko’s “Marxist” agricultural ideas, such as “close-cropping” and “deep-ploughing”. Seeds were claimed to show the same revolutionary spirit as the Communists [...]

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Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. I grew up in a generational-Labor-voting family. I kept the faith long after the political left had abandoned it. In the last decade...