Take Paul Cockshott for example. He's written about stochastic materialism which takes the traditional more "linear" progression, critiques it, and then offers an alternative that is still grounded in a materialist analysis https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/stochastic-historical-materialism/
Take Paul Cockshott for example. He's written about stochastic materialism which takes the traditional more "linear" progression, critiques it, and then offers an alternative that is still grounded in a materialist analysis https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/stochastic-historical-materialism/