Dialectical Nature: reflections in honor of the twentieth anniversary of Levins and Lewontin's The Dialectical Biologist.(Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin)(Critical essay)

From: Monthly Review | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Richard Levins wrote in these pages (July-August 1986) that an appreciation of history and science is necessary to understand the world, challenge bourgeois ideological monopoly, and transcend religious obscurantism. Knowledge of science and history is needed in order not only to comprehend how the world came to be, but also to understand how the world can be changed. Marx and Engels remained committed students of the natural sciences throughout their lives, filling notebooks with detailed comments, quotes, and analyses of the scientific work of their time. Marx, through his ...

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