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In 1923, Pavlov criticized the Marxist theses and the policy of the Soviet regime. In 1924, N.I. Bukharin, a Marxist theoretician and member of the Soviet government, responded to Pavlov’s passionate speech with a sarcastic diatribe. I suggest that Pavlov’s speech and Bukharin’s article represent a conflict between a scientist critical of the Marxist pseudotheory and a journalist’s abusive response to the realization that his theory was without much merit.
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Windholz, G. I.P. Pavlov vs. N.I. Bukharin: The critical mind and the arrogance of power. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science 28, 143–150 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02691217
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