A variant of
anti-communism that uses the authority of
science (or a distorted image of it) to delegitimize Marxist thought. Its defenders claim that communism contradicts supposedly universal natural, biological, or economic laws—such as scarcity, competition, genetic selfishness, or private property as an extension of animal territory. Unlike epistemological
anti-communism (which attacks Marxist method), scientific
anti-communism attacks the conclusions of Marxism as "scientifically false." It often invokes alleged studies on hierarchy in primates or innate economic rationality.