In England, More Than In Any Other

We Will Have To Give Up Taking Things For Granted, Even The Apparently Simple Things.

As The Scene Of Life Would Be More The Cold Emptiness Of Space Than The Warm, Dense Atmosphere Of Planets, The Advantage Of Containing No Organic Material At All, So As To Be Independent Of Both These Conditions, Would Be Increasingly Felt.

But If Capitalism Had Built Up Science As A Productive Force, The Very Character Of The New Mode Of Production Was Serving To Make Capitalism Itself Unnecessary.

The Question Of The Origin Of Life Is Essentially Speculative. We Have To Construct, By Straightforward Thinking On The Basis Of Very Few Factual Observations, A Plausible And Self-consistent Picture Of A Process Which Must Have Occurred Before Any Of The Forms Which Are Known To Us In The Fossil Record Could Have Existed.

The Relevance Of Marxism To Science Is That It Removes It From Its Imagined Position Of Complete Detachment And Shows It As A Part, But A Critically Important Part, Of Economy And Social Development.