To say, "X is a Science," is meaningless, since there are a number of conflicting understandings of what "science" and "scientific method" are! Science is not a bundle of facts, since no facts exist except as they are brought out by one or another theory. Theory is necessarily a precondition for recognizing a fact.
Carrol -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 12:21 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Natural laws of science as dogma "Charles Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: >So, as a SCIENCE, Marxism has basic principles , theories and laws ( see. >_Capital_ ) that are rigorously adhered to by MARXISTS. This does _ not_ make >Marxists's politics a religion, but rather it is critical to it being a >science. Marx held that his method was best understood from Capital and he held that his method was the scientific method. Since Marx was making a model of the capitalist economy he had to be careful at what was the most basic components of the economy. He didn't choose gold, energy, or land, he chose labor time. -- Ron _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
