Amusing to watch western academics rediscover dialectical materialism from scratch.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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"These seemingly disparate social indicators are actually related to each other dynamically," he wrote at the time.
my guy discovering dialectics
Turchin's prediction was based on a framework known as Structural-Demographic Theory (SDT), which models how historical forces—economic inequality, elite competition and state capacity—interact to drive cycles of political instability. These cycles have recurred across empires and republics, from ancient Rome to the Ottoman Empire.
whoa materialism coded
Like yeah nobody thought of this stuff before, so original.