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Marxist historiography has made great contributions to the history of the working class, oppressed nationalities , and the methodology of history from below. The chief problematic 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 subjective and objective factors in creating outcomes.
Marxist history is generally teleological, in that it posits an end state of history as classless 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 or wish to avoid a personality cult of Marx, often describe themselves as marxist historians. Methods from Marxist historiography, such as class analysis, can be divorced from the liberatory intent of Marxist historiography; practitioners often refer to their techniques as marxian.
Marx's most important historical contribution was the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte .
Marxist historiography suffered in the Soviet Union, as the state ideology of dialectical materialism required overdetermined historical writing. Marxist historians tended to avoid contemporary history (history after 1905) where possible and effort was predominantly directed at premodern history. As history was considered to be a politicised academic discipline, historians limited their creative output to avoid prosecution.
Notable histories include the Short Course History of the Communist Party Soviet Union (Bolshevik), published in the 1930s, which was written in order to justify the nature of Bolshevik party life under Joseph StalinIosif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin ( Russian: Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin , original name Ioseb Jughashvili ( Georgian: Russian: Iosif Dzhugashvili see Other names section ( December 21 [ December 9, Old Style], 1879 1 March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik rev.
A circle of historians inside the Communist Party of Great BritainThe Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a political party in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1920 to 1991. Formation The party was founded in 1920 after the Third International decided that greater attempts should be made to establish commu (CPGB) formed in the 1950s. They shared a common interest in 'history from below' and class structure in early capitalist society. While some members of the group left the CPGB after the 1956 Hungarian RevolutionBudapest The 1956 Hungarian Revolution also known as the Hungarian Uprising was a popular revolt against Soviet influence and control in Hungary. The revolt was brutally suppressed by Soviet troops. About 25-50,000 Hungarian insurgents and 7,000 Soviet tr, the common points of British Marxist historiography continued in their works. They placed a great emphasis on the subjective determination of history. E. P. ThompsonEdward Palmer Thompson ( 1924- 1993) was a historian probably best known for his work The Making of the English Working Class which included his reassessment of the Luddite movement. He published many other histories besides, and one novel The Sykaos Pape famously engaged Althusser in The Poverty of Theory , arguing that Althusser's theory overdetermined history, and left no space for historical revolt by the oppressed.
Thompson's Making of the English Working Class is one of the works commonly associated with this group. Eric HobsbawmEric Hobsbawm (born June 9, 1917) is a British historian and author, earlier the leading theoretician of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain. Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria and grew up in Vienna and Berlin. He moved to London in 1933 and was's Bandits is another example of this group's work.
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