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By Lesz Nowak

A lot is related in Marxist literature approximately Marxist technique that's alleged to be completely unique - differing greatly from all different tendencies within the glossy philosophy of technological know-how. nevertheless, although, it's unfallacious to kingdom that there aren't any humans outdoors Marxism who wish to deny this assertion. This has to place those that relatively think that Marxism has whatever very important to assert in philosophy of technological know-how on protect: if a person says anything very important others are likely to be vulnerable to protest. yet who's vulnerable to protest while it truly is acknowledged that Marx em­ ployed either induction and deduction, a historic process and a logical one besides, synthesis, but additionally research, and so on? who's vulnerable to protest while it's not identified what inside of this framework 'induction', 'deduction' 'history' or 'logic' suggest? who's prone to protest while 'Marxist meth­ odology' is gifted now not as a result of distinctive definitions and transparent hypotheses yet due to a jungle of quotations? i believe that the most malfeasance of the present 'Marxist methodology', is that of ecclecticism. The method of Marx is gifted as a col­ lection of trivial and/or vague rules yet no longer as a procedure of statements subordinated to any transparent, convinced standpoint featuring a brand new snatch ofthe nature of clinical cognition. look for reconstruction of Marxian meth­ odology as a process of the sort is the most objective of this publication.

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