What Is a Radical Analysis of Science?
We shouldn't relinquish science to those who would depoliticize it or use it to prop up the ruling class. We should harness it for emancipatory, transformative ends.
A chemist at work in a laboratory circa 1970s.Pictorial Parade / Archive Photos / Getty
A radical analysis must not confine itself to the business of critique — to dismantling dominant ways of thinking about the doing and making of science. A radical analysis must offer lessons for how to transform science in a revolutionary direction. How to remake science in the service of the people.
This means using critique to inform our movement’s concrete plans for actualizing hopes, visions, and waking dreams of a science emancipated.
This means setting a goal for radical analysis to guide our movement in its fight to reclaim science — currently complicit with and exploited by capital — weaponized against workers and the oppressed, and forged to reinforce ruling-class power.
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