History and the Future

As has been previously discussed, the 'American exception' to Marxist analysis constitutes a counter-example to the theory of History entailed in the latter.  Now, underlying that disproof is a simple premise that has been typically obscured in even the most prominent of its articulations.  For, the standard representation of Hume's concept of Causality--"'A causes B' = 'A and B' are perceived as constantly conjoined'"-glosses over its precise formulation--"'A causes B' = 'A and B have in the past been perceived as constantly conjoined, and the constant conjunction is expected to continue in the future'".  In turn, presupposed by the weaker 'expectation' is the stronger premise that the future is inherently uncertain.  So, at the heart of Marxism is not merely a denial of that premise, but an evasion of it shared by even non-Marxist Philosophies.