SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



that this philosophy became the accepted guide 

 of millions of proletarians in all countries, who 

 organized themselves for conscious co-operation 

 in line with evolution. The bourgeois world, 

 ignorant of the historical necessity of this new 

 world-movement and its materialist monist phi 

 losophy, continued its heedless and headlong 

 course of individualistic anarchy in thought and 

 action. And when the new movement began to 

 show its power and urge an organization of 

 social life in accord with higher evolution, the 

 bourgeoisie opposed it with might and main as a 

 danger to " law and order." 



But the bourgeois scientists more or less con- 

 sciously carried the method of dialectic mate- 

 rialism gradually into almost every department of 

 their science. In the last half of the I9th 

 century, the Marxian method was frequently 

 plagiarized by bourgeois professors, especially in 

 the field of sociology, economics, and history, with 

 the full knowledge of its original authorship and 

 with the intention of robbing its author of his 

 credit. But not one of the bourgeois plagiarizers 

 or commentators equaled the proletarian mas- 

 ters who had made a new departure in those 

 sciences. 



In other sciences, especially in biology, phys- 



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