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.

  • Samubai
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    2 years ago

    A technicality here: both Hegelian dialectics and Marxist dialectics are a fair bit older than Popper’s Critical Rationalism. He actually formulated his theory of Falsifiability as a counter to Marxism after learning about Diamat firsthand from Marxists.

    Yes.

    Haha, Go off! Dope exposition.