Science’s class-imposed limits yield only to altered historical praxis.

Evidence

During the inter-war years there was somethmg desperate about the search for a mythology that could somehow straighten society out in such troubled times. … The reasonĐ for which Picasso was compelled to resort to signs and allegones should now be clear enough: his utter political helplessness in the face of a historical situation which he set out to record; his titanic effort to confront a particular historical event with an allegedly eternal truth; his desire to give hope and comfort and to provide a happy ending, to compensate for the terror, the destruction, and inhumanity of the event. Picasso did not see what Goya had already seen, namely, that the course of history can be changed only by historical means and only if men shape their own history instead of acting as the automaton of an earthly power or an allegedly eternal idea. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 261 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The philosophy of praxis not only claimed to explain and to justify-all the past, but to explain and justify historically itself as well. That is, it was the greatest form of “historicism”, total liberation from any form of abstract “ideologism”, the real conquest of the historical world, the beginnings of a new civilisation. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1414 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: History changes only through historical means, not eternal truths — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 261; Philosophical truths are valid only as expressions of a specific historical praxis; Philosophy of praxis claims historicist self-explanation beyond its predecessors. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1414

Broader Connections

• History changes only through historical means, not eternal truths #corroborates (0.95) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 261
• Philosophical truths are valid only as expressions of a specific historical praxis #corroborates (0.90)
• Philosophy of praxis claims historicist self-explanation beyond its predecessors. #expands (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1414