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Caudwell´s controversial book offers an astute and enduring diagnosis of the maladies of bourgeois epistemology.

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"Caudwell criticized, brilliantly and destructively, the philosophical conclusions of bourgeois scientists."
-J. D. Bernal

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Christopher Caudwell was the pen name of Christopher St. John Sprigg, a self-taught polymath and active member of the Poplar Branch of the Communist Party. Caudwell was killed in action in Spain in 1937.

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