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Liz Ford 13R3 Outline the Marxist View of History History, according to Marx, was based on class conflict between the proletariat workers and the bourgeoisie capitalists, those who produced, and those who owned the means of production. It is in accordance with this theory that Marx's 'scientific' ideology of communism developed. According to Marx, all nations moved through distinct phases and the result of all of these phases was ultimately communism. Marx uses Hegel's idea of the dialectic to explain why changes in history happen. In Hegel's view, there are two conflicting ideas (eg: Slaves and Owners) which cannot exist side by side but instead of one dominating the other, a new idea is born from the two. Marx views history as being an inevitable process. As under each system (except for communism) there is conflict, according to the dialectic, a new system must be born. So as the conflicts within feudalism synthesised...

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