K. also opposed big government. Left alone, K. said, humans were naturally cooperative and could get along fine without a state to run things. He put forward a communal form of anarchy in which he combined the absolute freedom of the individual with common ownership of the means of survival. He thought that, out of this social form, independent production units would form to respond to basic human needs. In his 1962 book, On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn showed the politics which infuse officially accepted theories and world-views.
Science is a social product produced by a community of scientists.
Kuhn made the point that world-views in a discipline, called a paradigm, is validated and taught as 'the truth' until further research creates an intellectual revolution and new paradigms emerge to be treated as scientific orthodoxy. In a recent interview in Scientific American, Kuhn said that he thought that it is possible to come to a final, comprehensive paradigm which would end the dialectics of knowledge. Postmodern sensibility holds that nature and society are so complex that any number of paradigms are possible, indeed, they dwell side by side in most disciplines. See Kondratieff curves for a general explanation of such cycles.