On Popper's Criticism Of Marx's Historical Determinism

A serious challenge in Marxism in the twentieth century came from Popper.In his writings such as "open society and its enemies","poverty of historicism","conjecture and refutation",Popper conducts Marx's historical materialism with "critical rationalism" and "falsificationism".Its inner logic is,on the one hand,by denying that the history has a "law" that evolves and develops according to the universal law,and then denies that the historical future can be predicted according to the law,that is,denying the purpose and directionality of the history itself;on the other hand,denying history to follow the law,and then deny communism as a general idea of fantasy.The ultimate goal is to criticize the doctrine of historicism and the totalitarian despotism of nationalism,which leads to the total violation of individual rights and freedoms caused by the "utopian project" caused by this doctrine in reality.However,because of Popper do not understand dialectics,in particular,he ignored the difference between natural science and humanities and social sciences,the natural science theory rigidly applied to social history to explain the laws of society,into a metaphysical trap,so he Marx's series of attacks is due to misunderstanding and prejudice,exposing his scientism in the face of social and historical problems of incompetence and self-contradictory.To respond effectively to Popper,it is necessary to adhere to and develop Marxism,dialectically evaluate Popper through the analysis of Marxist methodology,which not only helps to distinguish dialectical historical determinism from mechanical historical determinism,The tendency to overcome the dogmaticization of Marxism has also led us to return to the essence of Marxist theory and constantly study and examine and answer the most important and urgent issues facing contemporary times...