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    It is not the case that Materialist dialectics reframes contradiction as a driver of historical-economic necessity, collapsing the epistemic into the causal-mechanical.

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    • 1.Ideas, norms, and beliefs causally influence material outcomes; Marx's theory itself required ideological commitment to gain historical force.
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    • 2.Collapsing epistemic into causal-mechanical denies human agency; people navigate contradictions through interpretation, not mechanical determination.
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    • 3.Historical necessity claims are unfalsifiable post-hoc narratives; outcomes labeled 'necessary' only after they occur, not predictively.
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    • 1.Material conditions (production modes, resource scarcity) causally determine social structures more reliably than ideas do historically.
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    • 2.Contradictions between labor and capital, forces and relations of production, generate observable structural conflicts driving social change.
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    • 3.Treating history as mechanically necessary rather than contingent explains why similar economic stages produce similar social upheavals across cultures.
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