Biosocial and epigenetic relativity of human nature: Relative to political economy, technology, and culture. Updated July 7, 2023

By Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.

Written 1982.     Posted on September 7, 2015

It is a long article with many additions

Epigenetics and epigenetic evolution stand in relation to conventional genetics and Darwinian evolution, as Einsteinian physics stands in relation to Newtonian physics. Fazal Rahman

“It is a question of the Third World starting a new history of Man, a history which will have regard to the sometimes prodigious theses which Europe has put forward, but which will also not forget Europe’s crimes, of which the most horrible was committed in the heart of man, and consisted of the pathological tearing apart of his functions and the crumbling away of his unity.”
Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth, (Fanon, 1963, p. 315).

“We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.”
R. D. Laing

The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise (R.D. Laing, 1967)

Abstract

This and an earlier paper (Rahman 1980) have ventured into the terra incognita and focused on the effects of social environment on the epigenetic and biosocial regulation of human nature.  Undoubtedly, there are also the effects of natural and physical environment on such regulation, which are also important to investigate.  Various research studies with other forms of life, cited in the Review of Literature in these papers, reveal how changes in the internal and external physical environmental factors cause corresponding epigenetic and gene regulatory changes in various organisms.

A dialectical theory is developed in these papers on the dialectical and relative nature and regulation of human nature, in relation to and in interactions with the politico-economic, mass psychological, and cultural systems and processes of the social environment.  The main focus is on the totally un-researched and unknown areas and effects of such regulation on the epigenetic and gene regulatory dimensions. Some recent research findings which clearly demonstrate that domestication forces and pressures and directional selection (analogous to changes in the politico-economic and cultural forces and pressures in humans) bring about tangible and heritable gene regulatory changes in some animals are reviewed and correlated with the hypotheses and discoveries of our theoretical research. It is concluded that the imperialist capitalism-science and technology-culture complex, especially in its extremist forms and advanced stages, like those of the US, gives rise to extreme imbalances in the differential socio-genetic regulation of human nature.

Destruction of the ecology of nature is dialectically related to the destruction of the ecology of human nature, both being the historical products of the co-evolution of capitalism and technology.

NATO’s Policy of Self-Destruction as Ukraine is Being Destroyed | Col. Jacques Baud

Note by Fazal Rahman

This interview with Swiss Col. Jacques Baud contains one of the best factual and logical analysis of the Ukrainian Crisis and the roles of Russia, Ukraine, US, and Europe in it. In it, he also reports important information and insights about the nature and causes of various other wars and conflicts, like in Palestine, Gaza, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.

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Apr 23, 2024 Interviews Jacques Baud is a former member of Swiss strategic intelligence, a specialist in Eastern European countries and head of United Nations peace operations doctrine. He was engaged in negotiations with top Russian military and intelligence officials right after the fall of the USSR. Within NATO, he participated in programs in Ukraine and in particular during the Maidan revolution in 2014. Baud’s Books: https://www.amazon.com.br/stores/auth…

World Military Expenditure Reaches All-Time High of $2,443Bln in 2023 – SIPRI

04:14 GMT 22.04.2024

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240422/world-military-expenditure-reaches-all-time-high-of-2443bln-in-2023—sipri-1118048488.html

Note by Fazal Rahman

As countless millions of people are suffering all types of deprivations around the world, including those in the Advanced Capitalist-Imperialist Technological Societies (ACITS), and millions are facing hunger and famine, like in Sudan, Gaza, Southern Africa, and Argentina, etc., the world military spending reached the highest level in 2023, $2 trillion and 443 billion, under the political economies of capitalism and imperialism.  As I wrote in some of my previous articles, in the newly emerged and emerging capitalist and imperialist multipolar world, militarism, military spending, and wars and conflicts are certain to greatly increase.  The only solution to this and other greatest problems that have developed in the history of mankind and the planet is global socialism, the possibilities of which have greatly diminished after the grand betrayals of socialism in the USSR, Eastern Europe, and China. Humans are now rushing full speed towards the abyss and they will take most other life forms with them.  As in the past, US imperialism is leading the way.

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Passage of $95 billion bill by the US Congress for wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparation for war in Taiwan

Jackpot for Arms Contractors, Pain for Ukraine: Who Gets What From Congress’ $61 Bln Bag of Goodies?

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240420/jackpot-for-arms-contractors-pain-for-ukraine-who-gets-what-from-congress-61-bln-bag-of-goodies-1118031921.html

Ilya Tsukanov

Note by Fazal Rahman

US House of Representatives just passed the $95 billion spending bill for wars in Ukraine and Palestine, and preparations for war in Taiwan, while inflation of basic necessities of life is making them unaffordable to countless millions of Americans, and their Medicaid coverage is also being eliminated or downgraded by maneuvers of the so-called Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has maintained a totally erroneous, flawed, and absurd system of measuring Federal Poverty Level (FPL) since 1963.  I am not going into factual details of that here, but these can be easily found on the Internet.  All these evils and injustices are being created by the elected representatives of American Capitalist-Imperialist Technological-Militarist Society, and implemented by the countless non-elected bureaucrats.  They have all sold out their souls and intellects to the Real Devil, the CAPITAL.  So has much of the electorate that constantly elects these replicas to all the federal, state, and local offices, frequently even against its own interests.

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American Dream = American Nightmare

Ballooning Expenses: Unpacking High Costs Behind ‘American Dream’

Note by Fazal Rahman

So-called American Dream has always been based upon capitalist-imperialist materialism, which has sickened, perverted, and distorted the souls and intellects of its inhabitants.  It has been a nightmare for much of rest of the world and has now also become a nightmare for its own majority, even in strictly materialistic terms.  After invasion of America and most brutal genocide of its natives, the European invaders and their descendants transformed the pristine paradise on Earth into concrete monstrosities of huge crowded  cities, have created an extremist form of capitalist-imperialist civilization, and all types of weapons of mass destruction, as well as pollution of soil, air, water, and food.  They have also exported this civilization to much of rest of the world.  They extracted great wealth from the resource-rich lands of the colonized country, which numerous generations have benefited from.  They also maximally exploited the natural and human resources of rest of the world and transferred these to their imperialist center.  However, after centuries of such parasitic affluence, the balance of economic and military powers has shifted, which has put powerful brakes on the national and international parasitism. The complicity of overwhelming majority of population with their ruling class is now backfiring on it., which has been effectively immunized against understanding the real nature of this crisis and its causes.

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Global terrorist threat, Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K): Analysis by a Pakistani journalist

Zahid Hussain   Published March 27, 2024

https://www.dawn.com/news/1823994/global-terrorist-threat

Note by Fazal Rahman

My 2015 article with the following link is also relevant to the origins of non-state terrorism and the role of state terrorism in its creation

https://imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com/2015/02/12/capitalist-technocratic-psychopaths-of-imperialism-vs-the-psychopaths-of-islamic-state-is-by-fazal-rahman-phd

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THE deadly attack on a concert hall in Moscow last week, which left around 140 people dead, marks the expansion in the terrorist operations of the so-called Khorasan chapter of the militant Islamic State group. The daring IS-K assault in the Russian capital demonstrates the group’s increasingly destructive capacity to carry out high-profile acts of terrorism beyond the region it has so far been operating in.