The open mind and its enemies

The title obviously paraphrases (sir) Karl Popper's title "The open society and its enemies" - yes I know the marxists do not like him(!).

From my point of view the key conclusion of Karl Popper on political sciences is that when operating social change the individual should engage on it in a piecemeal approach and not in a revolutionary way - yes I know the maxists do not like his conclusions.

The key argument is that when ever operating social change the operator always has to be prepared to face unexpected consequences and if the change is greater the unexpected consequences ... are greater. This argument is turn is based in the thesis that no one knows the laws of social change - the supporting arguments are epistemological.

What was said before is also valid for psychological change - we do not know the laws of psychological change so when trying to obtain it in order to minimize the undesired consequences we should avoid to change the personality of the individual to much - we should try to obtain psychological change in a piecemeal approach.

To please the marxists I draw their attention to a particular conclusion - when marxists engage on the democratic debate abdicating of the use of force we should try to change their ideas in a piecemeal approach - that's what we call a dialectic approach to the political debate.