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Matt Eagles "What are the main strengths and weaknesses of Marxist histories"? Marxist theories ultimately have their ambitions set upon social upheaval of whatever current system of governance is in place and the replacing of it with the idea of Communism. At the fulcrum of these Marxist theories is the concept of class struggle throughout history. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." (Communist Manifesto) An immediate potential weakness within the Marxist school of thought could be the apparent cynicism that is apparent throughout. To grasp the idea that man is no more in control of his existence and circumstances is a daunting and uneasy way of approaching the interpretation of history. "It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence that determines their consciousness." (Marx, in the Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.) However the driving...

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