[Disclaimer: I read the (original) telegraph.co.uk link, but only started on the mod-altered link to the PDF.] The notion that "political science" is science i

[Disclaimer: I read the (original) telegraph.co.uk link, but only started on the mod-altered link to the PDF.] The notion that "political science" is science is propaganda. (Which is how we'd see "political science" in the former USSR, because we're encouraged to see its ideological filters. Though of course not our own.) To act politically, the necessary principles of world affairs are close to the surface; it's not quantum physics. Anyway, a science of human affairs is currently (and perhaps in principle) intractable, just like a scientific analysis of any vaguely complex animal's actions. Unsurprising when capitalists dominate a capitalist society. That's the point. (Even if we did swallow the fake distinction between politics and economics.)