I’ve always heard my comrades insist that Marxism-Leninism is scientific. I understand how dialectical materialism is scientific, and I understand that Marxism-Leninism is rooted in dialectical materialism. For a while, that satisfied me, but lately I’ve been reading material about how Marxists might present falsifiable hypotheses which made me realize I don’t understand how this works at all.
How do I, a Marxist, go about studying society scientifically in a way that dovetails nicely with dialectical materialism? Do I have to do experiments? What does that look like? How will I know if I’m wrong? Examples would help.
Did you see this thread on falsifiability and Marxism?
Edit: the actual link might help: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/305196
Yeah that was my post lol, maybe I should take another look at that
Haha. Damn, I even checked the name of the OP (i.e. you) for that thread before I replied to you here, but I had ‘Ayulin’ in my head as I had just replied to slither comment above.
You’re asking good questions, though, so keep it up!