A history of materialism, Part 2: Strict empiricism

The second of a four-part series on Marx's science and epistemology.

This is the second of a four-part series on the history of materialism. The first part is here.

It is doubtful that prehistoric man bothered to articulate an explicit theory of epistemology, and even if he did we of course have no record of it. Still, granting the standard anthropological premise that indigenous peoples often live much as they did thousa…