Popper’s (non-Marxist) disciple Paul Feyerabend pretty well undermined Popper’s view, essentially showing that many interesting and foundational scientific discoveries could not have been made if we exclusively followed the mode of what Popper calls science.
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Breht and Alyson talk about this in their episode on Socialism: Utopian and Scientific when they talk about how Marxism is a science. Breht brought up some events that could falsify key pillars of Marxist thought (around 1:25 in)
- Anarcho-capitalism gets established
- If liberal democracy is able to resolve class conflict
- A non-Marxist left ideology is able to lead and defend a world revolution
- Fascism and imperialism is rooted out of liberal society
Any of these events happening would crush key views of Marxism.
Great response! I love the analysis that these would indeed meet the falsification retirement.
My criticism of Popper's argument is that saying Marxism isn't a science because it can't make overly specific predictions of on to the-minute events is like saying Meteorology isn't scientific because you can't predict a tornado will strike at a certain time in a certain state and last for this many minutes.
Historical materialism was accepted by fact by even mainstream neoliberal economists like Adam Smith all the way up until it became cool to hate the Soviets for liberating their country from monarchs and capitalists.