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19 points

2 months ago

Today I was citing The Materialist Conception of History by Plekhanov and noticed that it had a huge spike in downloads this year. Gave me a spark of hope

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umbrella@lemmy.ml

8 points

2 months ago

what is it about?

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4 points

2 months ago

Historical materialism which is an analysis of history through the lense of dialectical materialism which is the philosophical and scientific basis for Marxism. Essentially viewing history as a continuous development of the means of production motivated by societal contradictions. The focus is specifically on conflict that arises between the owning classes and the laboring classes of each historical mode of production.

I just smoked so this may not be the best explanation but its the best I got in me rn

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WldFyre@lemm.ee

1 point

2 months ago

It’s not scientific lol

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1 point

2 months ago

Can you not study economics and politics scientifically?

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WldFyre@lemm.ee

1 point

2 months ago

I’d argue not, you can’t have reproducible experiments with control groups. You can’t really follow the scientific method with economics and politics.

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1 point

2 months ago

Can’t fault you for consistency. Whether or not the soft or social sciences actually are “science” has been a conversation for a long ass time so I won’t argue lol.

I will say though, that Marxism is the closest I have seen to a proper scientific theory of political economy and I study a natural science (physics) so I think that counts for something.

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