Dialectical Materialism, History, Uncertainty

Theories of Action have tended to suppress the distinction between Attempt and Outcome, thereby presenting a model better suited to mastered behavior, than to either the learning process, or to methodical experimentation. The inadequacy extends to Marx's theory of History, in which humans continually re-make themselves as they re-make the world. Thus, the Necessity that Marxists attribute to Dialectical Materialism dogmatically neglects the inherent Uncertainty of the process, one consequence of which has been some of the later shortcomings with respect to the original ambitions of the doctrine, thereby also exemplifying that suppressed Uncertainty.