PrepTest 66, Section 2, Question 19
Social scientist: Since the body of thought known as Marxism claims to describe rigorously an inexorable historical movement toward the socialization of the means of production, it should be regarded as a scientific theory. Thus, certain interpreters, in taking Marxism as a political program aimed at radically transforming society, have misconstrued it.
Social scientist: Since the body of thought known as Marxism claims to describe rigorously an inexorable historical movement toward the socialization of the means of production, it should be regarded as a scientific theory. Thus, certain interpreters, in taking Marxism as a political program aimed at radically transforming society, have misconstrued it.
Social scientist: Since the body of thought known as Marxism claims to describe rigorously an inexorable historical movement toward the socialization of the means of production, it should be regarded as a scientific theory. Thus, certain interpreters, in taking Marxism as a political program aimed at radically transforming society, have misconstrued it.
Social scientist: Since the body of thought known as Marxism claims to describe rigorously an inexorable historical movement toward the socialization of the means of production, it should be regarded as a scientific theory. Thus, certain interpreters, in taking Marxism as a political program aimed at radically transforming society, have misconstrued it.
The social scientist's conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?
The description that Marxism gives of certain historical phenomena in the economic sphere is as rigorous as it is claimed to be.
The aims of science are incompatible with the aims of those who would seek to transform society by political means.
Only bodies of thought consisting purely of rigorous description are scientific theories.
Scientific theories cannot be correctly interpreted to be, or to imply, political programs.
The means of production will inevitably become socialized regardless of any political programs designed to make that occur.
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