Question
Discuss how the historical or archival method can be explained through Marx's description of class conflict.
Solution
(i) Historical method has been employed by Karl Marx (the father of modern scientific socialism) in conjunction with dialectical materialism in understanding the human sections.
(ii) Marx believed that the materialistic structure of sections (viz. two classes of the industrial societies-(proletariat and capitalists) accounts for their development and thus, he took the philosopical device and applied to the materalistic view of society.
