Marxism des-colonized as backbiting to Popper’s criticism of historicism

Abstract

It is intended to address the critique of Popper towards historicism, developed from his perspective on philosophy of science, conceiving the link between techno scientific rationality and instrumental rationality in Popperian philosophy. Methodologically, this works reflects on the hermeneutic of Popper on Marxism as historicism, and the way it affects the question of the category of irrationality in the predictive and controlling analysis of historicism. In this sense, a review and a theoretical contrasting are conducted, and the principal postulates are analyzed. It concludes by doing a deconstruction of the mechanistic interpretation of Marxism and it is established the pertinence of a decolonized Marxism from the rupture of Marx with the Eurocentrism and the critique to the techno-scientific rationality.