Blind spot 1: Immiseration

According to Lakatos, Marxism predicted &ldquo;the absolute impoverishment of the working class,&rdquo; which didn&rsquo;t happen. Marxists didn&rsquo;t admit the mistake, kludged up some excuse, and moved on. See the previous post . I think the story is more complicated, and it&rsquo;s an example of how critical rationalists think experiments (natural or otherwise) and theories are way simpler…