PROLETARIAN SCIENCE 



proletarian mathematician were to argue that 

 what is true for the capitalist class must also 

 be true for the working class, the capitalist class 

 would speedily reply that it was not at all a 

 question of abstract truth, but of concrete power 

 to demonstrate this truth. 



Moreover, I am also aware that all my ideas 

 are the products of my past and present environ- 

 ment. I cannot speak, therefore, without show- 

 ing in all I say, that I am a member of the class- 

 conscious proletariat, a member of that part of 

 the proletariat which has escaped from the spell of 

 capitalistic thought. I realize that a science, 

 however true may be its theoretical conclusions, 

 does not exist for that part of mankind who can- 

 not apply its -abstract truths in their practical 

 life. The proletariat has no science unless sci- 

 ence steps into its ranks or develops out of its 

 very life, for the purpose of combining scientific 

 theory with proletarian practice. 



In this sense, then, I declare that my science 

 is a proletarian science. Not that I do not ap- 

 preciate what the bourgeois scientists of the past 

 have accomplished, or what the bourgeois scien- 

 tists of to-day are doing in the way of accumulat- 

 ing material for the storehouse of human knowl- 

 edge. But proletarian science is the expression 



