The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Political activism
Arriving in Cambridge as a Catholic Bernal became a socialist as a result of a long night arguing with a friend. (1965). 0143.

John Desmond Bernal[pronunciation?]FRS (10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was one of the United Kingdom's most well-known and controversial scientists.