What are even the alternatives to historical materialism? Great Man Theory is rather shallow, and other popular theories (geographic determinism, even cyclical history) don't exactly conflict with historical materialism.
The alternative is that there isn’t a grand theory of history, and you can’t just boil down everything to one factor like geography or economics.
Grand narratives are a thing for people with a two-digit IQ. The sensible thing to do is to assign more or less importance to each historical factor (kinship, class, culture, ideas, geography, individual agency etc.)
>>18250842All you have to do to disprove "historical materialism" is play literally any strategy game and watch God start shrieking about literally anything. God feels he has the right to dictate what happens in games you'd be delusional to think he doesn't behave the same way in "real life", not to mention he does behave the same way in "real life", terrorizing, abusing, harassing, threatening etc me for things like what clothes I wear or what food I eat, feeling he has the right to dictate whether I go to college, own property, host video game tournaments, etc.
>>18250849This Are you deliberately ignoring postmodern OP? Y'know, the thing that's the most popular view amongst actual historians today?
>>18250842Eschewing a grand theory of history altogether. Also, geographic determinism and cyclical history (among others) can absolutely conflict with historical materialism. One by subordinating economic relations to the environment (and by extension negating class conflict and what such as drivers of history). The second by denying linear progress and evolution.>>18250868It turns out 19th century sub-hegelian nonsense rarely survives colisions with common sense and nuance.
>>18250892>The second by denying linear progress and evolution.Isn't this dialectical materialism and not historical materialism
>>18250849>>18250868>>18250892Postmodern intersectionalism is just as much a grand narrative of history, you're just being dishonest about it.
>>18250842maybe just study the sources and their authenticity and that's that. Scrub for shit remains to guess the meals people had and that's that.There is infinite idiocy with people in physics trying to interpret what quantum physics means etc ant all that bull. It's the same for history... Just do the damn work we don't care what you have to say about it it's all word games stupidity all the way the History marx uses is not the history someone that digs up ancient snot uses. You're just here wasting your lives talking and talking about the metaphysical implication of you misusing words out of their useful context.
>>18250903No. DM is a wider principle about the function of the world. Historical materialism arises from DM. Class struggle is integral to it.
