"Ask Dr. Science!" was a long running funny public radio skit by Ian Scholes. http://www.ducksbreath.com/
I'd rather ask Dr. Gouldner or Lichtheim, thank you, Dr. Brown. http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Marx/2marxtoc.htm http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Marx/ch2.htm MARXISM AS SCIENCE AND CRITIQUE
Charles is giving y'all the old stale orthodoxies (that Maurice Cornforth,
one of his sources, repudiated in his last book, "Communism and Philosophy,
" Lawrence & Wishart, circa '80) that the Frankfurt School and other ,
"critical marxists, " opposed to the, pseudo-
scientific marxism ala Engels. Scientism really. David McLellan,
marxologist in his, "Marxism After Marx: An Introduction, " cites these
studies, to which I'd add these two, the 1st volume of Leszek Kolakowski's,
"Msain Currents of Marxism, " and A. Walicki, "Marxism and the Leap to the
Kingdom of Freedom."
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv2-51
> ...Z. A. Jordan, The Evolution of Dialectical Materialism:
A Philosophical and Sociological Analysis (London, 1967)
is the best introduction to this subject. Starting from the
now generally accepted distinction between the original
approach of Engels and that of Marx, the author traces in
considerable detail the exfoliation of Engels' unsystematic
essays into the fully developed system of dialectical mate-
rialism first outlined by G. V. Plekhanov and subsequently
codified by Lenin and his successors, down to and including
Stalin. Gustav A. Wetter, Dialectical Materialism: A Histori-
cal And Systematic Survey of Philosophy in the Soviet Union (London, 1958),
offers an equally learned, but differently
organized, account of the topic, the author giving little
space to Marx and Engels, while centering attention upon
the evolution of Soviet philosophy since 1917. Unlike
Jordan, he deals at some length with Bukharin, Deborin,
and some lesser figures. For a critique of Engels' philo
sophical writings see Sidney Hook, “Dialectic and Nature,�
in his Reason, Social Myths and Democracy (New York,
1950), pp. 183ff. For the impact of Leninism on the philo-
sophical and scientific discussions in the USSR before the
full rigor mortis of Stalinism set in, see David Joravsky,
Soviet Marxism and Natural Science 1917-32 (London, 1961).
For a more recent and less technical discussion of Marxism-
Leninism as a pseudo-ontological system of speculation
about nature and history see A. James Gregor, A Survey
of Marxism (New York, 1965). The brief reading list ap-
pended to this work provides a guide to official Soviet
literature on the subject, as well as to works by Western
authors and a few “revisionist� critics of Leninism who have
retained the Hegelian-Marxist approach antedating the
formulation of Soviet orthodoxy in the 1930's. For a brief
but pregnant discussion of this latter theme, see Eugene
Kamenka, Philosophy in the Soviet Union, Philosophy (Journal of the Royal
Institute of Philosophy), 38, No. 143
(Jan., 1963).
GEORGE LICHTHEIM
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