I just started The Three-Body Problem and have really been enjoying so far. That being said, the first chapter takes place during a struggle session at a university, where a professor is accused of reactionary thought by teaching Einstein’s theory of relativity and the Big Bang Theory by his own accord in an intro physics class.
Is there any historical truth to this sort of backlash, and if so, why? I’m no physicist, but I don’t understand how ToR/BBT contradict dialectical materialism.
Yup. This is partially why the CPC embraces technological innovation as having a mostly apolitical character that socialist States should learn from, just applying it differently, to benefit the whole people. Strange that the USSR had a ultraleft turn for a few years, despite Lenin and the bolsheviks’ embrace of science and art, which lead to an explosion of innovation in the 1920s.