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-	'''Marxist''' or '''[[historical materialism|historical materialist]] historiography''' is a school of [[historiography]] influenced by [[Marxism]]. The chief tenets of Marxist historiography are the centrality of [[social class]] and [[economic]] constraints in determining historical outcomes.	+
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-	Marxist historiography has made contributions to the history of the [[working class]], [[oppressed nationalities]], and the [[methodology]] 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 [[Subjectivity|subjective]] and [[Objectivity (journalism)|objective]] factors in creating outcomes.	+
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-	Marxist history is generally [[Determinism|deterministic]], in that it posits a direction of history, towards 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-actualization#Self-actualization|self-consciousness]], and to arm them with tactics and strategies from history: it is both a historical and a liberatory project.	+
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-	Historians who use Marxist methodology, but disagree with the mainstream of Marxism, often describe themselves as ''marxist'' historians (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 as ''marxian'' or ''Marxian''.	+
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