ABSTRACT
In the Marxist theory of society, science is regarded as one of man's productive powers. In varying ways it has made the modern industrial system possible; as condition of the general flexibility of mind which has developed along with science over recent centuries. Even though science is subject to the dynamisms of history, it may not be deprived of its own proper character and misinterpreted for utilitarian ends. In the general economic crisis, science proves to be one of the numerous elements within a social wealth which is not fulfilling its function. This wealth is immensely greater today than in previous eras. In the measure that concern for a better society, which still dominated the Enlightenment, gave way to the attempt to prove that present-day society should be permanent, a deadening and disorganizing factor entered science. For science, too, is determined in the scope and direction of its work not by its own tendencies.
