Your typical pinko prof

Bernal was a public intellectual, very prominent in political life, particularly in the 1930s after having left the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1933. He attended the famous 1931 meeting on History of Science, where he met the Soviets Nikolai Bukharin and Boris Hessen, who gave an influential Marxist account of the work of Isaac Newton. This meeting fundamentally changed his world-view.

Maybe Pepe wants to explain the Marxist account of Newton's work. I'm waiting with bated breath.

In 1949 the Evening Star published an interview with Bernal in which he endorsed the "proletarian science" of Trofim Lysenko.

Of course. Les grands esprits se rencontrent.

In 1949 he was refused a visa for a US visit.

G_d d__n the US of KKK A, exclaims Pepe!

Throughout the 1950s, Bernal maintained this faith in the Soviet Union as a vehicle for the creation of a socialist scientific utopia.

The finest exemplar of Planet Pepe.