Science is not a ideal process absolutely distinguished from and unaffected by the general historical and social process.

It is a social activity occurring in space and time and subject , yet epistemically irreducible, to the class-struggle. As something conditioned by the class-struggle, science takes the form of an ideological struggle over the way the world is and how it should be. In the ideological struggle, the determinant of whether science criticizes and revises its ideological errors is not solely a function of scientific method and rationality. It is also determined by the intervention and fight to subject what seems to be , at a given historical moment of science, “a plausible” scientific fiction to social and philosophical critique in such a way as to contribute to a shift of current within the “enclosed” scientific community. Du Bois is a perfect example of someone who waged a philosophical and scientific struggle to refute pseduo-science, and most importantly pernicious ideology.

Marxists have always fought against pseudo-science which promotes certain ends and interests, whether it is “race science” or a reductionist “sex-materialism”.

Read this article. It shows how the results of science on sex and gender can best be seen as confirming general propositions of the materialist dialectic and in turn serve as a refutation of certain philosophical and ideological errors within science, but most importantly within the political conflict at large.

“The Nature feature collects research that has changed the way biologists understand sex. New technologies in DNA sequencing and cell biology are revealing that chromosomal sex is a process, not an assignation.

As quoted in the article, Eric Vilain, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Gender-Based Biology at UCLA, explains that sex determination is a contest between two opposing networks of gene activity. Changes in the activity or amounts of molecules in the networks can sway the embryo towards or away from the sex seemingly spelled out by the chromosomes. “It has been, in a sense, a philosophical change in our way of looking at sex; that it’s a balance.”

Sex biology redefined: Genes don’t indicate binary sexes – Scope