A Review in Bengali of MEGA IV.31: Notebooks of Natural Science Studies of Marx and Engels, 1877-1883

This volume contains some notes and excerpts reflecting: (1) Marx’s incomplete study of inorganic and organic chemistry; and of static and current electricity for some possible future use; and, (2) Engels’s study of some issues of physics and ecology related to what was published as the Dialectics of Nature, after his death.
In view of the unfinished character of these studies, any analysis of these notes and excerpts remain open-ended. This seems to be in the fitness of things in view of the requirement that the relation of the struggles for socialism/communism with the sciences of civil society remain open ended. To consider this relation closed, which the partocracies did and do, is to lead the people into quicksands of social stagnation. The task before the forces fighting for socialism today, as always, is to engage in the study of all the sciences in all possible interconnections. Only such study can give shape to an appropriate guide to action for today and tomorrow.

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