From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!bts Newsgroups: net.politics Title: Marxist Computer Science Article-I.D.: unc.4719 Posted: Sat Feb 26 16:23:19 1983 Received: Sun Feb 27 02:32:27 1983 I spent several hours last weekend looking through some of the more obscure science journals in our (UNC-Chapel Hill) main library's periodicals. In a corner of the stacks, I found a whole shelf of what seemed to be magazines on Marxist physical science. In case you've never seen such things, they were full of articles on how Marxism helps to explain physics or chemistry or other sciences. (My first impression was Creationism without the King James Version.) I was a little nervous about standing there looking at such things, but I did notice that there was no mention of computer science. I know it's debatable whether or not we are a science (or ought to be or even could be), and I know that very few programmers were around during Marx's life- time. Still, I was a little surprised to be left out. Does anyone out there in net-land know if there is such a thing as "Marxist Computer Science"? If there is, what's it all about? If not, why is that? Everyone wants to get into computers, surely Marxists are no exception. Can it be that computer scientists are too logical for Marxism, or too greedy? If Marxist computer science does exist, should the non-Marxists among us worry? I'd be interested in seeing facts, opinions or flames-- pretty much in that order. Bruce Smith, UNC-CH duke!unc!bts