Bourgeois pseudoscience

Bourgeois pseudoscience was a term of condemnation in the <a href="/facts/Soviet_Union/m7wWsPto">Soviet Union</a> for certain scientific disciplines that were deemed unacceptable from an <a href="/facts/Ideology/BWooMbq7">ideological</a> <a href="/facts/Perspective_(cognitive)/fUwYgCxe">point of view</a> due to their incompatibility with <a href="/facts/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism/bXD3yf3m">Marxism–Leninism</a>. At various times pronounced "bourgeois pseudosciences" were: <a href="/facts/Mendelian_genetics/v2038wkl">Mendelian genetics</a>, <a href="/facts/Cybernetics/4qb58zbt">cybernetics</a>, <a href="/facts/Quantum_mechanics/BRc3Mzgr">quantum physics</a>, <a href="/facts/Theory_of_relativity/qGHj3eTC">theory of relativity</a>, <a href="/facts/Sociology/d2Fd0N87">sociology</a> and particular directions in <a href="/facts/Comparative_linguistics/V9qgFpcE">comparative linguistics</a> (the now-debunked <a href="/facts/Japhetic_theory/Kmaz3HGw">Japhetic theory</a> of <a href="/facts/Nikolay_Yakovlevich_Marr/uQw5AoKq">Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr</a>, which was also refuted by Stalin in "<a href="/facts/Marxism_and_Problems_of_Linguistics/XtjRT1qv">Marxism and Problems of Linguistics</a>").
The term was not used by Stalin himself, who rejected the notion that all sciences must have a class nature. Stalin removed all mention of “bourgeois biology” from <a href="/facts/Trofim_Denisovich_Lysenko/ETVxCxPd">Trofim Lysenko</a>’s report, The State of Biology in the Soviet Union, and in the margin next to the statement that “any science is based on class” Stalin wrote, “Ha-ha-ha!! And what about <a href="/facts/Mathematics/pxTouaz4">mathematics</a>? Or <a href="/facts/Darwinism/ojpLgHDY">Darwinism</a>?” The term or its synonyms was used in the 1951 and 1954 editions of the Short Philosophical Dictionary: "Cybernetic is a reactionary pseudoscience originated in the United States... A form of modern <a href="/facts/Mechanicism/ujFBeF0K">mechanicism</a>.", "<a href="/facts/Eugenics/e7w6aSUV">Eugenics</a> is a bourgeois pseudoscience", "<a href="/facts/August_Weismann/DDhlKDwE">Weismannism</a>-<a href="/facts/Thomas_Hunt_Morgan/4wswVmWC">Morganism</a> - bourgeois pseudoscience, designed to justify <a href="/facts/Capitalism/FbPc6TTw">capitalism</a>". Today, most scholars agree in characterizing eugenics as rooted in pseudoscience, albeit without the "bourgeois" qualifier.
<a href="/facts/Psychology/duoqW7Sz">Psychology</a> was declared a "bourgeois pseudoscience" in <a href="/facts/People%27s_Republic_of_China/lTjIXY5p">People's Republic of China</a> during the <a href="/facts/Cultural_Revolution/1EAQGgYk">Cultural Revolution</a> (1966–1976). Furthermore, sociology was banned there in 1952, and it remained banned for until the late 1970s.

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Bourgeois pseudoscience