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The goal in this paper is to show that dialectical materialism is a version of contextualism, in order to advance the understanding of dialectical materialism and sciences based on dialectical materialism. These sciences include the dialectical materialist psychologies of, for example, Vygotsky (1934-1986), Rubinshteyn (Payne, 1968), and Leontyev (1981b). Dialectical materialist sciences may or may not have merit; but they are not political or economic institutions and the failures and, if any, the successes of Communist political and economic institutions are irrelevant to the failures or successes of dialectical materialist sciences.
The premises in the argument that dialectical materialism is a version of contextualism are Pepper's theory of world views, or world hypotheses as the called them....