The Importance of Marxism as a Science

Jay Parini: If Marxism isn't scientific, then it's one more interpretive philosophy among a huge catalog of interpretive philosophies. But also I think that you can't separate Marxism from its claim that it is scientific, right? One of the starting points that Marx and Engels make is this is a science," he says. "It's not just a set of ideas about the world that we came up with in a vacuum" It's actually a methodology and a scientific assessment of proletarian struggle over time,Parini adds.