SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



pleted in bold outlines a consistent materialist 

 monist conception of the world, which was un- 

 compromisingly arrayed against all bourgeois 

 philosophy and science, because it rested for its 

 realization on the proletarian revolution. And 

 the test of its monism is found in the fact that 

 none of the shining lights of bourgeois philosophy 

 and science, with the exception of Alfred Russell 

 Wallace, has since worked his way upward to a 

 frank avowal of the historical connection of the 

 proletariat with such a materialist monist concep- 

 tion of the world. We shall presently see that 

 even the clearest thinkers of the bourgeoisie 

 either denied or ignored this connection, or, if its 

 inevitableness dawned upon them, that they be- 

 wailed it as auguring the destruction of all " civ- 

 ilization." 



But the proletarian thinkers are calmly going 

 their historical way, just as the proletarian revolu- 

 tion is doing. The socialist philosophy, with the 

 founder of scientific socialism, can afford to adopt 

 the motto of Dante : " Segui il tuo corso, e lascia 

 dir le genii" Follow your course, and let the 

 people talk. 



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