The dogs that didn’t bark Marx and Engels and statistical fatalism Julian Wells School of Economics Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Kingston University Penrhyn Road Kingston-upon-Thames kt1 2ee j.wells@kingston.ac.uk Dissent in Science seminar Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences London School of Economics 4 April 2006 Note This paper is at a very early stage; its present form is principally intended to support discussion at the seminar. As such it is long on quotation but rather shorter on explanation and discussion.