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what is marxist history

Answer 1

Marxist historiography, or historical materialist historiography, is a school of historiography influenced by Marxism.

Answer 2

Marxist historiography, or historical materialist historiography, is a school ofhistoriography influenced by Marxism. The chief tenets of Marxist historiography are the centrality of social class and economicconstraints in determining historical outcomes.

Marxist historiography has made contributions to the history of the working class, oppressed nationalities, and themethodology of history from below. The chief problematic aspect of Marxist historiography has been an argument on the nature of history as determined or dialectical; this can also be stated as the relative importance of subjectiveand objective factors in creating outcomes.

Marxist history is generallydeterministic:[1][2][3] it posits a direction of history, towards an end state of history asclassless human society. Marxist historiography, that is, the writing of Marxist history in line with the given historiographical principles, is generally seen as a tool. Its aim is to bring those oppressed by history to self-consciousness, and to arm them with tactics and strategies from history: it is both a historical and a liberatory project.

Historians who use Marxist methodology, but disagree with the mainstream of Marxism, often describe themselves as marxisthistorians (with a lowercase M). Methods from Marxist historiography, such as class analysis, can be divorced from the liberatory intent of Marxist historiography; such practitioners often refer to their work asmarxian or Marxian.

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