>>82359
Cockshott still accepts the premise of historical determinism in his analysis, so the onus is on him to demonstrate how this is methodologically consistent without using Marx's teleology.
>>82373
>"In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness."-Marx
Sounds like textbook determinism to me. Marx uses Hegel's dialectical methodology for his analysis, albeit with a materialist bent. However, there is still an inherent teleology to employing a dialectical method. If you want a counterexample to Marx's historical determinism, there are many. One that I like to use, and many other non-Marxist historians have pointed, is that of the atypical way in which Germany transitioned from feudalism to an industrialized society, which runs contrary to the synthetical predictions that Marx employed when analyzing Great Britain and other Western European societies.