He wrote an autobiography - he was a young man who was a communist because he believed in scientific materialism. He later recanted after some of his friends were shot and killed by the police.
Popper said he noticed that scientific materialism proposed by communists or Freud's theories was very different from the lecture he heard by Einstein - Einstein looked more like science.
Communism whatever anyone thinks about it is obviously not science. They claimed to be science at first and proposed scientific materialism as the future.
Today even communists seem to have recanted this idea instead preferring to criticize capitalism and present themselves as the only alternative. We all know today it's not science.
I don't want to debate politics only to say Communism was never science, it's politics - Popper noticed that quickly and it was one of the imputus for his ideas based in his own autobiography
He also dedicated his book the poverty of historicism to the countless men and women who lost their lives to fascism and Communism and their false belief in historical destiny
Open society and it's enemies also contains a long critique of Marx and the idea that history follows certain laws that must play out a certain way.
The problem with all ideas is always their reification. Computers may be deterministic, but humans aren't. The same software/idea produces wildly different understandings; and behaviour in differnt humans.
What always seem like great ideas in theory, innevitably has to cope with the (mis)understanding; (mis)interpretation; and (mis)application of said idea by the mass population.
Popper said he noticed that scientific materialism proposed by communists or Freud's theories was very different from the lecture he heard by Einstein - Einstein looked more like science.
Communism whatever anyone thinks about it is obviously not science. They claimed to be science at first and proposed scientific materialism as the future.
Today even communists seem to have recanted this idea instead preferring to criticize capitalism and present themselves as the only alternative. We all know today it's not science.
I don't want to debate politics only to say Communism was never science, it's politics - Popper noticed that quickly and it was one of the imputus for his ideas based in his own autobiography
He also dedicated his book the poverty of historicism to the countless men and women who lost their lives to fascism and Communism and their false belief in historical destiny
Open society and it's enemies also contains a long critique of Marx and the idea that history follows certain laws that must play out a certain way.