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What can a Marxist approach tell us about scientific ‘facts’?
This week the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY explains how a dialectical methodology can help ask the right questions
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
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The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
AN EARLIER answer looked at what a Marxist approach can reveal about science’s relation to society.
The questions science asks (and the answers that it gets) are closely related to the way that science is organised, who pays and who profits, as well as to the more general needs of society.
That doesn’t mean that science is necessarily lacking in objectivity (although sometimes this is the case).
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