An analysis of the controversy between dialectical materialism and historical materialism as a methodology of science

摘要

Karl Marx proposed a dialectical methodology of science from simply observing the harmony which evolves from the processes of thesis, antithesisudand the synthesis of operational processes in human nature. Consequent on this proposition, debates among scholars have questioned theudscientificity of the dialectical method of science upheld by all Marxists. Armed with the deconstructive critical methods of analysis in philosophy, thisudstudy analyzed the historical foundations of the scientific methods proposed by Karl Marx with the view to determine its relevance and the future ofudthis dialectical methodology of science in the 21st Century. The study among other things discovered that, though the three laws of the dialecticaludprocesses proposed by Karl Marx portrays some scientific rudiments, as postulated in their conception of socialism, the conclusion that the processudwhich birthed socialism is scientific is considered simply baseless and scientifically untenable, with little or no future for this dispensation