Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Popper , Sir Karl Raimund (1974), The Philosophy of Karl Popper, Open Court Publishing Company, Retrieved on 2012-06-21
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    21 JUN 2012

     Marxism and Freudianism are Not Science

    The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is a methodological rule, and since the demarcation between science and nonscience is vague. But it is more than sharp enough to make a distinction between many physical theories on the one hand, and metaphysical theories, such as ' psychoanalysis, or Marxism (in its present form), on the other. This is, of course, one of my main theses; and nobody who has not unde...
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    Marxism did not allow itself to be tested, Freudianism was so flexible as to have an explanation for everything.

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