◆ SpookStack

PH 100-32106 ¢ errata aS re erearare! eld Se ; a : - - : I3 . Ey cae Wiese oe » participation and contrel ie.a mockery of the aims. of’ s: . Whether under ‘the guise of a ‘welfare state,' fasclam; 5 ona Labor gevernment." a "Labor Action" dated December 25, 1950, printed.an article in the colum "You and Science” by CARL DARTON entitled. "the: Scientist As Observer and Actor." In this articie, DARTON: ebgested to the concept that science cannot solve social, preblems. DARTON stated, “Hypocritically, apologists for -. capitalism continually emphasize that something more than. science is needed to solve our social problems. As a result irrationalism is encouraged to grow in this already mad world. Few other than socialists are available to stress the fact. that only through the self-realization by the working people | of their power can intelligence be used to find the way out of the present world crisis. However, since the dominant clagses would only dose -Gheslr ywivileger Lf -ecvenece: were 30 applied, - every effort is made to hide the revolutionary implications of its social application. Since MARX first laid the basis for a science of society few professional scientists or scholars have attempted to apply his findings in other than a very limited sense. On the contrary, effort has been made to build an aversion in the minds of the masses to science except in its . . a physical or mechanical application. Socialists have long imown 3” that this concept is false. esesesecapitalist theorists have. arene raised the bugaboo that science cannot be applied by.a partici~ pant in, but only by an unbiased observer above, the struggle. seovesess Today as capitalist misuse of science threatens ali values as well as civilization itself with destruction, workers . are beginning to realize that. they alone by their own efforts. — can provide the preconditions for a mature sclence of society.5. "Labor Action” dated January 29, 1951, under the column “Yor and Science" printed a book review. by CARL DARTON “entitled FROMM On ‘'Hutanistic Religion'.®: In this. column, : CART; Dé reviewed. | J ENPROMELS is Pee “DER pe 3 a7 pointed: oy us 8 abel oy ives mkn* Be of intés tion” ant SSCurity very. necessary in a chaotic world." PARTON stated FROMM deseribed: |: two types of religion: authoritarian or a surrénder to a CONFIDENTIAL, -5 4