Marxism is as scientifically rigorous as Dianetics. And yet it is still taken seriously by many useful 1diots in the humanities and social sciences. Why is this? Are they just pretentious f00ls?
Why is marxism still wildly popular in sociology and history?
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Marxism isn't "wildly popular" in sociology and history. Come on.
Dialectical materialism is a flawed but legitimate method for historians, and is only narrowly practiced today. Some sociologists make excellent use of class analysis but most contemporary scholars steer clear of it. Marxism as applied to political science has been far less successful than methodological individualism.
Marxism is not dead, not totally irrelevant, but let's not pretend that it's mainstream.
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Marxism is as scientifically rigorous as Dianetics. And yet it is still taken seriously by many useful 1diots in the humanities and social sciences. Why is this? Are they just pretentious f00ls?
You sound like you have never really read much Marxism. It was the first instance of empirical sociology, laid the first well defined theories of war and revolution, and speaks to the interplay between social power structures and material reality.
Modern Western Marxism is trash, but the older ideas are both interesting and scientifically relevant. We just didn't get those here because of the Cold War, and in the East the ideas were perverted and ossified for political purposes.
Just read stuff from before the revolution. Some of it is quite modern and, for its time, attempted to be quantitative as well. You're just biased.