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Slightly dramatic, without inaccuracy or pendanticism. We'll see, I am cautiously optimistic.

present-day Marxists often hold views exactly opposite to those of Marx and Lenin, as in the question of the inheritance of intelligence. Both Marx and Lenin were quite explicit about their belief that ‘equality’, as an ideal essential to Socialism, meant social equality, not biological equality, and they emphasized their belief that the latter was absolutely impossible to attain.

Freud’s teachings have undermined the values on which western civilization is based, and while some at least of this undermining has been due to a misunderstanding of Freudian teaching, nevertheless his influence on the whole has been malignant

Freud used this anachronistic framework in an attempt to handle the problem of the diversity of cultures. Rather like his theory of childhood development with its series of stages, he equated savage personality with infantile personality, each modern individual, as it were, recapitulating the evolution of the culture by passing through the various stages of progress towards maturity