Looking for a good Marxist critique of science and knowledge production. Any recommendations?

I found Helena Sheehan’s Marxism and the Philosophy of Science but according to the reviews, it goes into some Trot shenanigans.

  • ComradeRat [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    24 days ago

    Idrk any specifically Marxist books on the matter, but check out Local vs Global Science edited by Sillitoe. Collection of essays by practicing scientists looking at the failure of science to be sufficiently materialist (in that, when faced with locals claims about the world, scientists response often tends towards denying such claims instead of actually testing them).

    Lewontin’s Biology as Ideology is also good, though a bit old. I think I’ve read somewhere that he’s a Marxist as well as a biologist. Book looks at how many scientists are really “believers” in science moreso than testers, and a large part of this is how science is taught in schools.

    You also cant go wrong with Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, he also isnt a Marxist, but his analysis is solid and does well integrating the relationship between the economics and the scientific theories