never have any scientific relevance for the actual truth value of a judgment or the scientific character of the result of an investigation - unless, that is, it is the determination of good or evil of a given ideology that is being investigated, but even in such a case the determination too must also be performed according to an objectivistic (scientific) method. However, this does not necessarily imply the denial of the fact that the good or evil of a cause may affect the political utility of the results of a scientific investigation. In fact, Hägerström’s theory of values etc denies the possibility of determining an objectively real value in the sought-after metaphysical manner.49 Furthermore, the specific use of the results of a scientific investigation or scientific discovery is an issue that can only be decided upon the basis of considerations other than the scientific, such as ideologically motivated considerations. Provided that Hägerström is correct in his analysis, then the practice of politicizing science necessitates that the objective aspects of scientific investigations have to step back in favor of those specific subjective aspects, values and valuations, that provide scientific results with maximum political legitimacy, which implies that the (ideally) political indifference of scientific methodology must be substituted for a politically correct scientific methodology.This would thus make science the handmaid of ideology, and subordinating deference to accepted scientific method to the greater goal. Axel Hägerström’s Social teleologi i Marxismen (1909) will provide an example of how the political aspirations of a theoretician, Karl Marx (1818-1883), influenced the outcome of theory. Here Hägerström analyses the scientific foundations to Marx’s philosophy of history and theory of the forces of production (Swedish: “produktivkrafterna”), and Marx’s historical materialism.50 Hägerström holds that Marx’s theory lacks proper verification.Apart a ca l l f o r s c i e n t i f i c p u r i t y 257 49 See Lang, Wertung, pp. 89-98. 50 Hägerström, Social teleologi i marxismen, pp. 66-67.
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