Dialectical Materialism and Developments in Contemporary ...

Dialectical Materialism andDevelopments in Contemporary ScienceThe Marxist, XXVI 4, October December 2010T. JAYARAMANINTRODUCTIONT oday we are more than a century and a half away from the origins ofwhat we would recognize as Dialectical Materialism . In the era whenthis philosophy was being formulated, science, in many disciplineswas passing through a phase of incremental progress. Biology wasdifferent, as Darwin s work created something of an upheaval, but inother disciplines it seemed to be an era of evolutionary progress ratherthan radical transformation. All of this changed in the first half of thetwentieth century, a period marked by the tumult of both the socialistrevolution and the radical advance of the sciences. After the manytransformations that have taken place since, in both the social-politicalworld and the human knowledge of the natural world, it is clearly ofvalue to Dialectical materialists to renew their understanding of adialectics of nature.

Dialectical Materialism and Contemporary Science 63 speech at the graveside of Marx: “But this was not even half the man. Science was for Marx a historically dynamic, revolutionary force.

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