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Back in 2010 the materialist historian Turchin predicted in an article in Nature that 2020 would see a major outbreak of social disorder in the USA.His work distinguished between the long term stress that a society experiences and short term triggers. The long term stress predisposes a state to social breakdown, riot, insurrection or civil war. Once the society is in a highly stressed state, then some otherwise common event – the killing of an innocent man by the police in this case – can trigger the breakdown. What was remarkable about Turchin is that he took historical materialist ideas [Marx was a historical materialist], dressed in a language to make them acceptable to US academia, and gave them precise quantitative numerical form. He gave social stress a formula.... Paul
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Back in 2010 the materialist historian Turchin predicted in an article in Nature that 2020 would see a major outbreak of social disorder in the USA.His work distinguished between the long term stress that a society experiences and short term triggers. The long term stress predisposes a state to social breakdown, riot, insurrection or civil war. Once the society is in a highly stressed state, then some otherwise common event – the killing of an innocent man by the police in this case – can trigger the breakdown. What was remarkable about Turchin is that he took historical materialist ideas [Marx was a historical materialist], dressed in a language to make them acceptable to US academia, and gave them precise quantitative numerical form. He gave social stress a formula.... Paul
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Back in 2010 the materialist historian Turchin predicted in an article in Nature that 2020 would see a major outbreak of social disorder in the USA.
His work distinguished between the long term stress that a society experiences and short term triggers. The long term stress predisposes a state to social breakdown, riot, insurrection or civil war. Once the society is in a highly stressed state, then some otherwise common event – the killing of an innocent man by the police in this case – can trigger the breakdown.
What was remarkable about Turchin is that he took historical materialist ideas [Marx was a historical materialist], dressed in a language to make them acceptable to US academia, and gave them precise quantitative numerical form. He gave social stress a formula....Paul Cockshott's Blog
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