Men Will Not Be Content To Manufacture

One Of The Questions On Which Clarity Of Thinking Is Now Most Necessary Is That Of The Relation Between The Methods Of Science And Of Marxist Philosophy. Although Much Has Already Been Written On The Subject, Yet There Is Still An Enormous Amount Of Confusion And Contradictory Statement.

The Full Area Of Ignorance Is Not Mapped. We Are At Present Only Exploring The Fringes.

The Recognition Of The Art That Informs All Pure Science Need Not Mean The Abandonment For It Of All Present Art, Rather It Will Mean The Completion Of The Transformation Of Art That Has Already Begun.

In Fact, We Will Have To Give Up Taking Things For Granted, Even The Apparently Simple Things. We Have To Learn To Understand Nature And Not Merely To Observe It And Endure What It Imposes On Us. Stupidity, From Being An Amiable Individual Defect, Has Become A Social Crime.

But If Capitalism Had Built Up Science As A Productive Force, The Very Character Of The New Mode Of Production Was Serving To Make Capitalism Itself Unnecessary.