Reply To: Review of book about the CNT’s integration into the State
If all you were trying to say was that accurate predictions in physics and astrophysics are easier than in fields which involve human action then you are not saying anything new. But if historical materialism is “unscientific” on that account, then so are a lot of other theories, including the view that capitalism will be the only game in town for ever or at least for the next million years
It’s not a question of whether predictions in some fields are easier than in others but rather a case of whether they are falsifiable or not. For any hypothesis to have credence, it must be inherently disprovable before it can become accepted as a scientific hypothesis or theory.
I don’t recall saying that capitalism will be the only game in town for ever but on the evidence thus far it should be fairly apparent that it’s still going to be around for a very long time.
And it’s time the human race probably doesn’t have due to any of the potential reasons both of us have enumerated.