Tag: scientists can be political

brownbitchbisexual:

a person’s politics cannot be separated from their work. in the case of stephen hawking and albert einstein for example, their intellectual contributions often informed their politics. when you have capitalist regimes trying to dismantle pure scientific efforts at gaining knowledge or propagating equal education for all, of course those scientists are going to become anti-capitalists. furthermore, hawking was a disabled man and einstein was a german jewish man. both of them knew what it was like to be marginalized. they knew that no matter what they did, people would view them in ways informed by their statuses as a disabled man in hawking’s case or as a jewish man in einstein’s case. thus, it’s yet again no wonder that they were anti-capitalists. we know what kind of havoc capitalism wreaks on disabled people and jewish people. it’s so fucking stupid of people to say “don’t politicize their work” because these men were themselves partisans. they were political. they were open about their political beliefs, and in fact, they were fucking unashamedly leftist.