Yeah say what you will, but dialectical materialism at worst tolerates pseudo-science such as Lysenkoism, but it never allowed for the wholesale adoption of social darwinism and eugenics that capitalist nations with no coherent philosophy of science had informing their murderous and genocidal policy.
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The role Law, International Relations, Political Science and Economics (etc) serve today is the same that Anthropology and Phrenology (etc) served in the past.
westerners making fun of lysenkoism as if the west wasn’t neck-deep in eugenics at the time
Yeah say what you will, but dialectical materialism at worst tolerates pseudo-science such as Lysenkoism, but it never allowed for the wholesale adoption of social darwinism and eugenics that capitalist nations with no coherent philosophy of science had informing their murderous and genocidal policy.
Eugenics and racial science weren’t so much real ideas as much as rationalisations for something they were already wanting to do.
For instance prior to European colonial inroads into the far east the Chinese were considered white
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The role Law, International Relations, Political Science and Economics (etc) serve today is the same that Anthropology and Phrenology (etc) served in the past.