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Is the dialectic method truly a science?

When I say dialectic I mean Marxist dialectic. In the socialist literature, I read Marx and Engels both refer to dialectic as a scientific method, Stalin's writings as well. 

It is repeated over and over it is a scientific method. 

When I think of dialectic I think of having a thesis, and attempting to prove, disprove or expand on it the thesis or creating an antithesis that evolves that original into something new. 

According to Marx contradictions cause this for example the contradictions of class society, working-class, and capitalist class with their opposing interests. 

Can this be regarded as science though?
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Wissenschaft in German is a broad term, and in Hegel in particular (where M&E get their definitions and much of their theory from) it means the systematic and rigorous pursuit of knowledge. This inevitably involves empirics in many spheres, but is not reducible to empirics.

Marxism is a systematic worldview that has significant ontological commitments, epistemological commitments, and so on, which are built up through the dialectical interplay of theory and empirics. These in turn have methodological implications, both for study and for action. In this way, Marxism is a science.