Can anyone dispute Marx's theory of historical materialism?

No because he was completely right

Civilizations are more than his economical-material vision of things. That said, it could be said to be "correct" in the lowest sense if it was named "historical degeneration".

not a refutation of course but a good compilation of the basics of Marxism and Leninism: http://bookzz.org/book/862537/add33c

>>1682916

Yes. It was pre-emptively BTFO by Machiavelli almost 300 years before Marx ever put pen to paper, by posting class analysis that isn't reductionist and actually has predictive value.

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>inb4 socialism has never been tried

Communism failed. Marxism is false. It cannot be achieved. Every communist state is how Marxism's failure to square with human nature led to grotesque atrocity or embarassing failure.

Every fundamental change in economic relations brought about by technological or political shifts always worked within the confines of a leader-follower paradigm, with every social structure like the law, government and custom simply a continuous elaboration of the social contract.

Marx does not square with the leader-follower paradigm or the social contract. He is a cult leader, evil intentions or not, who seized on the misguided human desire for some kind of absolute justice and the selfish anger of the lumpenbourgeosie (failed intelligentsia, college trash, govt. placemen) to bring everyone down to their pitiful level, both intellectually and materially.

>>1683064
>muh human nature
>cult leader
>le socialism makes everyone on the same level meme

>>1682949
I believe you mean "involution of the castes".

>>1683014

Source?

>>1682916
>le socialism makes everyone on the same level meme

Are you implying that economic equality is not a core tenet of socialism/communism?

>>1682916
That pic is completely ahistorical

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Myopic twaddle

>>1683992
Marx: "Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriations."

Engels: "the real content of the proletarian demand for equality is the demand for the abolition of classes. Any demand for equality which goes beyond that, of necessity passes into absurdity."

Lenin: "In brief, when socialists speak of equality they always mean social equality, equality of social status, and not by any means the physical and mental equality of individuals."

>>1684068
So basically, you can get rich, as long as you only get rich using your physical labor....

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>>1683979

http://www.constitution.org/mac/disclivy.pdf

>>1682916
Historical materialism is a method of analysis not a fucking theory you stupid fuck.