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[lbo-talk] what is scientism why does the left love it so? Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org Thu May 11 07:57:51 PDT 2006
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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