I wonder here if any reader has an opinion on this anthropologist named Jonathan M. Marks who wrote " Why I am not a scientist ". I have just enough science literacy to suspect that this man is " de-constructing " science. I was very impressed by a polemical book by Lenin written more than a century ago but still insightful: " Materialism and Empirio Criticism ". Am I wrong-headed here in thinking that some popular science books are -in fact - rejecting the scientific-materialist concept of objective reality ?
Does the ruling class have any objective interest in REAL anthropology ? I have no use for God Seekers or God Haters. I liked Isaac Asimov essay on " The relativity of truth " and his essay on those reactionary creationists aptly titled " The Armies of the Night ".
Thank you for any guidance in this matter.
Leon Trotsky speaks
" The immense poverty of National Socialist philosophy did not, of course, hinder the academic sciences from entering Hitler’s wake with all sails unfurled, once his victory was sufficiently plain. For the majority of the professorial rabble, the years of the Weimar regime were periods of riot and alarm. Historians, economists, jurists, and philosophers were lost in guesswork as to which of the contending criteria of truth was right that is, which of the camps would turn out in the end the master of the situation. The fascist dictatorship eliminates the doubts of the Fausts and the vacillations of the Hamlets of the university rostrums. Coming out of the twilight of parliamentary relativity, knowledge once again enters into the kingdom of absolutes. Einstein has been obliged to pitch his tent outside the boundaries of Germany."
Does the ruling class have any objective interest in REAL anthropology ? I have no use for God Seekers or God Haters. I liked Isaac Asimov essay on " The relativity of truth " and his essay on those reactionary creationists aptly titled " The Armies of the Night ".
Thank you for any guidance in this matter.
Leon Trotsky speaks
" The immense poverty of National Socialist philosophy did not, of course, hinder the academic sciences from entering Hitler’s wake with all sails unfurled, once his victory was sufficiently plain. For the majority of the professorial rabble, the years of the Weimar regime were periods of riot and alarm. Historians, economists, jurists, and philosophers were lost in guesswork as to which of the contending criteria of truth was right that is, which of the camps would turn out in the end the master of the situation. The fascist dictatorship eliminates the doubts of the Fausts and the vacillations of the Hamlets of the university rostrums. Coming out of the twilight of parliamentary relativity, knowledge once again enters into the kingdom of absolutes. Einstein has been obliged to pitch his tent outside the boundaries of Germany."
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| " The Armies of the Night " in Berlin 1933 |
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