It’s rooted in the same philosophy as science with the same core project of demystifying a physical universe, but approaches that through constructivist rather than reductionist process.
It also started at the same time the physical sciences were formalizing. But the prevailing, imperialistic, capitalist society couldn't have demystification of itself. It kept the old enlightenment brainworms. In an attempt to keep up the ruse you started getting wacky race science to explain outcomes of imperialism and industrialization. The world was viewed as purely mechanistic because that's what reinforced industrial capitalism.
Hegel saw this and so did Lenin. They both wrote about the limitations of liberal science. In the mid-20th century the Soviets tried to start injecting DM into science again. But then, you know, WWII and then The Cold War.
It also started at the same time the physical sciences were formalizing. But the prevailing, imperialistic, capitalist society couldn't have demystification of itself. It kept the old enlightenment brainworms. In an attempt to keep up the ruse you started getting wacky race science to explain outcomes of imperialism and industrialization. The world was viewed as purely mechanistic because that's what reinforced industrial capitalism.
Hegel saw this and so did Lenin. They both wrote about the limitations of liberal science. In the mid-20th century the Soviets tried to start injecting DM into science again. But then, you know, WWII and then The Cold War.