ABSTRACT

First published in 1941, Marxism: Is it Science? was written to present the author’s criticisms of Marxism and, in doing so, to further exemplify his ‘Method of Instruction’ first proposed in an earlier work.

The book is divided into six parts to provide six complete presentations of Marxism and why the author considers it unscientific. The six different approaches, varying in focus and complexity, work together to give the reader a detailed overview of Marxism and the authors critique of it.

part One|3 pages

The World as Escalator

chapter |1 pages

The World as Escalator

part Two|14 pages

The Trouble with Marxism

chapter |12 pages

The Trouble with Marxism

part Three|24 pages

The Religious Heritage

chapter 1|4 pages

The Word “Dialectic”

chapter 2|6 pages

Hegel's Contribution

chapter 3|8 pages

What Dialectic Meant to Marx and Lenin

chapter 4|4 pages

Incidental Benefits of Faith

part Four|91 pages

The Marxian System

chapter |16 pages

The Belief in Dialectic Materialism

chapter 2|18 pages

The Theory of History

chapter 3|4 pages

The Class Struggle

chapter 4|11 pages

the Doctrine of Ideologies

chapter 5|10 pages

Marxism and the Psychology of Freud

chapter 6|8 pages

Marxian Economics

chapter 7|10 pages

Religion in Das Kapital

chapter 8|12 pages

The “Dialectic Method”

part Five|49 pages

Marx's Effort to be Scientific

chapter 1|25 pages

What Science Is

chapter 2|22 pages

The Seed of the Marxian Philosophy

part Six|76 pages

Revolution as a Scientific Enterprise

chapter 1|3 pages

The Practical Hypothesis in Marxism

chapter 2|8 pages

The Anarchist Contribution

chapter 3|5 pages

The Syndicalist Emphasis

chapter 4|10 pages

The Bolshevik Heresy

chapter 5|18 pages

Lenin as an Engineer Of Revolution

chapter 6|7 pages

Lenin's Philosophy

chapter 7|23 pages

Merits of the Scientific Attitude

part Seven|25 pages

Trotsky Defends the Faith

chapter |23 pages

Trotsky Defends the Faith