Marxism is a science

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Cian O'Connor" <cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk>
>A scientific
>>  theory is to the world, as a map is to the landscape.
>>  A simplification, but a useful one because it has a
>>  predictive power. I'm not convinced that you can say
>>  any of those things about marxism. Nor do I think it's
>>  necessary to attempt to do so. Why does Marxism have
>>  to be a science?
>>
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>
>Marx created a pretty darn good map of societies; it's a mistake, imo,
>to want it to be a science. On this score Marx-ism is no better or
>worse off than Lockean-ism or Libertarian-ism and it's precisely
>because people argue interminably about the issues connected with
>those different social maps that makes us zoon politikon rather than
>homo sapiens sapiens. That Marx wanted us to traverse the path from
>the former to the latter and offered some enticing suggestions on how
>to do it is what can and should motivate all of us, whether we care or
>not about the intricacies of his hypotheses on the falling rate of
>profit or the labor theory of value etc.
>
>"It is the moral radicalism of Marx which explains his influence; and
>that is a hopeful fact in itself. This moral radicalism is still
>alive. It is our task to keep it alive, to prevent it from going the
>way which his political radicalism will have to go. 'Scientific'
>Marxism is dead. Its feeling of social responsibility and its love for
>freedom must survive." [Karl Popper--The Open Society and its Enemies]
>
>Moral radicalism is political radicalism.
>
>Ian

What is moral radicalism?
-- 
Yoshie

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