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Engels declared at Marx’s funeral in Highgate Cemetery that "just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history". Scientific socialism was the term Engels used to describe Marx's socio-economic philosophy and many later theorists sought to reinforce Marxist theory with a supposedly scientific basis.
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Preface Introduction 1. Marx and Science 2. Engels and Scientific Socialism 3. The Question of Darwin 4. Scientific Socialism on the Ground: Bernal, Haldane, Needham 5. Scientific Socialism and Dialectical Materialism 6. Alhusser and the Enchantment of Science Conclusion Epilogue: Nature and Artifice in Marx Works Cited
Biography
Paul Thomas is Professor in Political Science specializing in Political Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Author of Karl Marx and the Anarchists, Alien Politics, Culture and the State (with David Lloyd).
