Conversation

@ruakueqche A lot of my thinking on it was actually revised when I read Richard Snyder's essay, “The Human Dimension of Comparative Research” in Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics. There, Snyder argued against “professional amnesia” where natural scientists have to forget old and outdated theories. But professional amnesia is only really necessary in the natural sciences. We don't need to read Nicholas Flamel to understand chemistry, but we need to know what previous authors said on what constitutes power because social science is a dialogue with the past.

Also, I think Gilles Dauvé, Endnotes, Chuang, Patricio Abinales, and Filemon Lagman are pretty good things to read when it comes to scientific inquiry in the left.