Possibilities of a ‘Marxist Method’ of Writing History

History writing has always remained a contested terrain. Political structures and regimes put their own pressures and demands on the kind of history being produced. However, likewise any other discipline history writing has its own ‘protocols’ which cannot be defied irrespective of the political ideology of the historian and pressures of the regimes. One of the schools of history writing which is particularly notorious for its ‘hidden’ political objectives is the Marxist school of historiography. However, the present article argues that unlike the imperialist and nationalist historiography (both of which too have their own political agendas), Marxist historiography cannot be discarded completely as some of the methods utilized by this school constitute the basic ‘protocols’ of history writing. In this regard, based on the minute reading of some of the original writings of Marx and Engels, the present paper not only overthrows the stereotypes which have been forced upon the Marxist historiography, but also looks at the possibilities of a ‘Marxist method’ of writing history in present scenario.