Throughout history, mankind’s ability to develop knowledge and advance our understanding of nature has been shaped by material conditions and social forces. It is not simply individual geniuses that have helped science to take leaps forward, but revolutionary changes within society.

Today, far from fuelling scientific progress, the profit motive and capitalist competition have become an enormous barrier to human knowledge. Only socialist planning can free science from these chains.

In this episode, Ben Curry, editorial board member of marxist.com, will discuss the crisis in modern science, and why socialist revolution is needed in order that a new epoch of scientific revolution can flourish.

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