The Marxist Conception of Science

Abstract

With the disappearance of Josef Stalin and, hopefully, of the Stalinist dogmatic interpretation of Marxist thinking, both the Marxist and the non-Marxist worlds have been given an opportunity — previously either not available or not considered fruitful - of reexamining the sources of Marxism and coming to a more nuanced understanding of its subtleties. Not least significant among the reinterpretations thus made possible is that of the’ scientific’ character of the Marxist theory of history as an explanation of socio-economic development.