[lbo-talk] what is scientism why does the left love it so?

[Charles Brown]

Marxism fights intellectually for materialism, as opposed to idealism,
especially in social science or historical science - historical
_materialism_.  Natural science has had a history of "ne pas avoir besoin de
l' hypothe de Dieu" ( spelling), i.e. atheism in its direct subject matter.
In other words, scientists might be believers in their private lives, but
God is not permitted as part of the explanation of a natural phenomenon that
is the subject of scientific work qua scientific work. So , natural science
is a sort of "natural" source of thinking and a worldview that bolsters
atheism in social science , social practice and politics.

 
One area of  natural science I see a big problem with is that which the
bourgeoisie have engineered into production of Weapons of Mass Destruction,
nuclear weapons in the first place.  Revolutions in natural science become
more and more dangerous because of the bourgeois dominance of technological
actualization of science, and the bourgeoisie's world historic bellicosity.

 
Charles