Socialist Appeal
The Marxist voice of Labour and youth
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born 250 years ago on 27 August 1770 in the German city of Stuttgart. A towering genius with an encyclopaedic mind, Hegel revolutionised every field that he dedicated himself to. The impact of Hegel’s ideas cannot be underestimated. As Marxists, we owe him a tremendous debt.
Revelations that Dominic Cummings sat on the government’s scientific advisory committee have raised question marks over just how ‘impartial’ expert advice is. Under capitalism, science will never be truly objective or independent.
Yesterday was the 160th anniversary of Darwin's 'Origin of Species'. Albeit unconsciously, Darwin's theory of evolution revealed how nature operates dialectically. This radically challenged the ideology of the ruling class.
Far from fuelling scientific progress, the profit motive and capitalist competition have become an enormous barrier to advancing humanity's understanding of nature. Only a socialist plan can free science from these chains.
"All individual beings must perish, but the wonderful diversity of the material universe in all its myriad manifestations is eternal and indestructible. Life arises, passes away, and arises again and again. Thus it has been. Thus it will ever be."