A lower case communist

String theorist/ Physicist Sunil Mukhi writes on ‘Marxism and Intelligence’, check out the comments on his previous post too.
Further to Cheeta’s comment on my previous blog “Communists and freedom”, about the distinction between communists and Communists, I was reminded of the late D.D. Kosambi (a colourful personality who was a TIFR mathematics professor as well as a historian). He is said to have opened a book review with the eloquent phrase: “Marxism is not a substitute for intelligence”. Indeed he was a remarkably intelligent man and also a Marxist - and I didn’t find anything in his writings that suggested he supports tyranny. So presumably he was a good example of a lower-case “communist”.

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