Marxian Dialecticism and Science

In: Socialism and democracy: the bulletin of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy, Band 8, S. 223-255

Abstract

Examines the emerging legitimacy of a Marxian view of science. Quantum physics, the science of chaos, & neo-Darwinism have challenged the hegemony of Cartesian-Newtonian positivism on many fronts: the idea of predictability, the presence of noise in data collection, nonlinear dynamic systems, observer-created reality, & indefiniteness. The linkages that the new sciences of the twentieth century have with Marxian ideas of science suggest that a Marxian natural science perspective may soon stand beside positivism as a legitimate scientific endeavor. 71 References. D. Generoli