SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



of the revolutionary fact that the proletariat has 

 learned to think for itself, that it refuses to 

 accept the teachings of members of other classes 

 without critical reservation, that it prefers to 

 think for itself in all other sciences as it does 

 in economics and politics, that it interprets the 

 facts of its terrestrial and cosmic environment 

 as it sees them from its own standpoint. 



Proletarian science is the Declaration of Inde- 

 pendence of the proletarian mind from the con- 

 trol of the capitalist mind. And since the pro- 

 letariat is historically the most revolutionary class 

 in society, and the future man in embryo, prole- 

 tarian science is the most revolutionary science 

 and the embryo of the future world philosophy. 

 If this science finds that its conclusions agree 

 with those of the bourgeois scientists so much the 

 better for their science. If the two do not agree, 

 then let the best science win. 



Since economic activity is based on biological 

 necessities primarily food, clothing, and shel- 

 ter we must understand biological facts as well 

 as sociological ones in order to obtain a full un- 

 derstanding of our nature and development. 

 Bourgeois statistics tacitly acknowledge this by 

 dwelling on biological facts, such as births, mar- 

 riages, diseases, deaths, crime, prostitution. But 



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