Exact sciences held near-fetishistic authority within Marxist thought

Evidence

The question is closely connected, for obvious reasons, with the question of the value of the so-called exact or physical sciences and the position they have come to acquire within the philosophy of praxis, a position of near-fetishism, in which indeed they are regarded as the only true philosophy or knowledge of the world. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1571

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• XREF: connects to: The ideology of scientific progress legitimated class hierarchy rather than lifting the poor — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 712