Social practice is the basis and source of knowldge (Marxism)
According to Dialectical Materialism, social practice is the basis and source of knowldge. Social practice embraces three things.
- Production: The struggle and conquest of nature.
- Class struggle: Aroase with the advent of exploiting and exploited classes. Apparently only 5,500 years old based on archaeology, anthropology and history.
- It is characterized by the resistance of the mass of real producers.
- Different kinds of exploiting class societies arose and passed away (slavery -> feudalism -> capitalism)
- Capitalism cannot last as long as the previous ones because it has created the conditions and means for its own rapid replacement by socialism.
- Scientific experiment: Scientific experiment had its beginnings in slave society but was only allowed to flourish since the Renaissance.