[Marxism] If Marxism is a science...

["T.Hartin" <t.hartin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark L wrote
> Obviously, social factors can be studied within the known parameters,
> but nobody part of the society being studied--part of the species that
> is being studied--can step out of it and develop a detached experimental
> perspective.

But thats the same problem with "hard sciences" as well. The best you can
hope for is to put boundaries around what you cannot know, and to get some
sort of idea how it is that your own position may affect your
observations.. but this is a solvable problem surely.. or at least if its
unsolvable, then the difference between study of society and study of the
natural world is only one of degree

> And it seems quite clear that people in large groups are far less
> predictable than individuals.

I dont know about that. I always found a demo an easier beast to
understand than many of the individuals I knew within it. I guess it has
to do with the interaction between the group and the outside world. I
would still say there is an averaging procedure

> Of course, if it were otherwise, wouldn't human freedom itself be a
> farce?

I dont think that human freedom is a cut and dried concept. Like the idea
of free will there are real problems formulating what it is
are real problems with formulating


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