America's ruling class is trying to stop the clock because history threatens its dominance. But no empire can freeze human development to preserve its privileges. Material conditions are changing. History doesn't ask permission from a declining hegemon. #HistoricalMaterialism

10 years on, this still holds its own:

Culture is inevitably malleable, however the material conditions, historically, have stuck like glue (unsurprisingly).

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Prof. Giulio Ongaro published an article arguing David Graeber’s “constituent imagination” unifies his work but risks idealism by underplaying class struggle, urging grounding his anthropology of possibilities in historical materialism.

#ConstituentImagination #DavidGraeber #HistoricalMaterialism