Social Control is Circular

Raymond Bauer was a psychologist in the 50's and 60's that wrote on the "attitude of the Soviet Union towards science" and the general characteristics of totalitarianism (1957).  Accordingly, he asserted that the totalitarian society is system which the basic social order of men and institutions must be aligned to the State's goals.  Scientists had the dual problem of their allegiance to the independent community of science and the needs of the totalitarian state.  Therefore, it was not easy nor even possible to challenge the existing ideology. 

The science of the State was two fold: act control and thought control.  For the Communists, action and thought were the same and the coordinator of act and thought was the Party.  This was developed as the suppression and advancement of linking these together by the scientific justification of Lenin's Tailism.  Tailism is the term for just hanging onto history by the tail instead of taking the bull by the horns and shaping it.

Bauer argued that every "scientific theory is affect by the social order in which the scientists work."  Therefore, it becomes circular, as the theory is direct by the social and the social is directed by the theory and in fact they are one and the same.  They are directly related and informed by each other.  And both are determined by the guidance (which was sudden and full of terror) by the Party.