Lewontin: No está en los genes

Good evening. This video is about the text by Léontine and Rose, "It's Not in the Genes." The main idea of ​​this text is a critique of the use of biology as ideology. The authors here discuss how what they call the New Right and the old determinism are related. They place the beginning of this New

Right in the 1980s in the United States and Great Britain, particularly with governments led by figures like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. From there, what they call the New Right began to emerge. It's important to understand how these authors use the term "ideology," because that's precisely where they point to the use of biology to legitimize a

particular ideology. By ideology, they mean certain dominant ideas of a particular society at a given time, and how these ideas manifest themselves ideologically. They express what is considered natural, what appears as obvious, as natural. And to whom do these ideas belong? To whom do they belong? To which group do they belong? To the

dominant class. Therefore, that dominant class has This new right, with its material and intellectual forces, breaks with liberal conservatism because that conservatism upheld certain values ​​like family, school, and so on. In contrast, this new right transcends that conservatism and breaks precisely with the concept of an organic society whose members have reciprocal responsibilities. The main idea, and

what is the foundation of this new right, is individualism. Individualism is understood as the priority of the individual over the collective or the community. This priority manifests in two ways: morally and ontologically. Morally, individualism means that the rights of individuals take precedence over those of the community. For example, in an example relevant to Córdoba