The Marxist Critique of Science Has Run Out of Steam
By Sarkozy
The far right's assault on scientific consensus has put the left in a strange position with regard to the objectivity of science.
When Bruno Latour disowned critique in 2004, he was mourning a weapon that had fallen into the wrong hands. But what if the problem was never critique itself?
In this essay, Sarkozy argues that modern Marxism has failed the critique of science by splitting itself in two: part-time positivists who canonize Marx as a great scientist, part-time conspiracists who reduce history to the schemes of the bourgeoisie. Both surrender the ground Marx actually stood on.
Drawing Peirce, Dewey, and Horkheimer into an ensemble of perspectives, Sarkozy proposes treating scientific facts not as objects to be worshipped or debunked, but as matters of concern forged by a community of inquirers—and asks what it would take to put the steam back in.
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