Abstract:
This study is an examination of the scientific status of Marxism. I argue that
Marxism is scientific as far as Popper’s falsificationism is taken as a serious
methodology of science. The method of establishing this finding involves the use
of logical analysis to provide a harmonious synthesis between Popper’s
falsificationism and Orthodox Marxism. The need for the attempt to harness
Marxism and science is a direct response to Popper’s remarks which seem to pose
an unsurmountable threat to the scientific status of Marxism as presented in the
Conjectures and Refutations. The study examines Marxism’s scientific status in
the light of the falsificationist criterion of demarcation between science and
pseudo-science and concludes that the scientific credentials of the latter is
acclaimed by the former and hence Orthodox Marxism ought to be described for
what it is, unfalsified scientific theory.
