Examining Cuba’s Knowledge Economy: A Review of Lage’s “The Knowledge Economy and Socialism”
In a review of Cuban scientist Agustín Lage Dávila’s new book “The Knowledge Economy and Socialism,” Renato Flores reflects on the role of science and …
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The Dialectics Of Stephen Jay Gould: Contingency, Convergence And Spandrels
Interview by Mitchell Thompson. University of Oregon Professor Richard York argues in his book, co-authored with Brett Clark, that Stephen Jay Gould is a crucial …
Remarks on “Towards an Organized Science”
Very interesting article with a good overview of some of the problems related to science as it is practiced. 1. The article talks about science …
Towards an Organized Science
How can the working class take hold of the forces of science, today held under the sway of corporate and imperialist interests? The Scientific Workers …
Letter: Lysenko and Epigenetics
This is a response to the letter: Letter: Lysenko is an Inaccurate Sound Bite – Cosmonaut (cosmonautmag.com) As a student of Marxism and a Master …
Letter: Lysenko is an Inaccurate Sound Bite
Hi there, recent developments in epigenetics encourage a rethinking of Lysenko, for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5602018/ I suggest that “Lysenko” has become to easy a soundbit to …
The Development and Significance of Cybernetics by William Grey Walter
Amelia Davenport introduces a text by William Grey Walter introducing basic concepts of cybernetics. Introduction Though little known outside the narrow circles of cybernetics, neurology …
On the Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis
Does psychoanalysis have a scientific value beyond being a hermeneutical framework for literary studies? Dillon Reitmeyer argues yes, and that Marxists have much to learn …
Making Sense of the Lysenko Affair
Soviet agrobiology is infamous for its promotion of the pseudoscientific theories of Trofim Lysenko and their disastrous results. Renato Flores investigates how these theories came …
Letter: Against Bohmian Mechanics
Our recent podcast “Dialectical Materialism, Marxist Realism and Quantum Mechanics” received some pushback in the form of Facebook comments, where it was claimed that we …
Letter: Marxism, Science and Exegesis
What is the proper relationship between science and textual exegesis in Marxism? What does it mean to uphold one at the expense of the other? …
Discovering the Cybernetic Brain
Amelia Davenport interviews philosopher of science and historian of cybernetics Andrew Pickering. We live in a society without a future. Fewer people than ever believe …
Disarming the Magic Bullet
Renato Flores responds to Cam W‘s argument for Maoism and the mass line. Reading: Gabriel Palcic. Global warming is progressing. Millions are going hungry and …
Revisiting the Lysenko Affair
In the second episode of our Soviet Science series, Donald, Djamil and Rudy sit down to contextualize an infamous episode of this story: The case …