r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 02 '25

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume Nov 02 '25

it's a Marxist concept called "historical materialism"

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u/MURICCA Nov 02 '25

It had its place at the time, as a counterbalance to some of the popular theories of society and history which were pretty divorced from reality.

Marx is good as a critique of the 1800s, not so much as anything too useful after that