Greetings,
The main content in the struggle against irrationalism, the
cutting edge, is not just the fight against all the ideological and
political trends that do not base themselves on the laws of social
development. It mainly confronts those who conciliate with the
defenders
At 01:12 PM 10/7/97 -0400, Shawgi Tell wrote, inter alia:
Irrationalism is the only "system of thought," if it can be
called a system, by which the bourgeoisie justifies everything. The
most damaging product of this irrationalism is the theory of "human
nature." It
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In science education the attack is on science itself. The "new"
(irrational) view of science is that it is subjective, culturally
determined, no different from non-science, and a useful tool but
non-explanatory of the universe. This is in contrast to
In the 1930's, British philosopher Karl Popper proposed the
idea that scientific theories could not be verified but only
falsified. Popper also made a career out of attacking Marxism.
Popper's notion of unverifiability is often appealed to today by
those who attack the reliability of
