Fra scienza e poesia: il metodo storico del Communist Party Historians’ Group

Abstract

Applying a Marxist methodology, the Historians’ Group has been able to combine the search for a popular revolutionary tradition (source of inspiration also for political militants) with the analysis and explanation of the historical phases that stimulated the birth and development of industrial capitalism in Britain, from an economic, social, and cultural point of view. At the same time, this group of historians combined the rigorous scientific method of Marxist political economy and historical and dialectical materialism (history as science) with a strong anti-mechanistic spirit, that led to study the "”human factor”(history as poetry) and to keep it always in great regard.

Keywords: Marxism; People’s History; Englishness; Economy; Culture.