Background: actually, Marxists were better than that

As I&rsquo;ve been documenting , philosophers of science Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos had harsh things to say about Marxists' response to the Russian Revolution of 1917 . I think they were wrong, and wrong because they missed important changes to Marxist theory. I have a teensy suspicion that not many of my readers will care about developments in Marxism between 1848 and 1917 and in the aftermath…