Introduction
Human development is a process whereby transformations take place as a result of social change and political struggle between opposing forces. It would be naive to believe that the process of transformation is the result of a painless natural selection progression. Historians in the Marxist tradition are aware of the dialectics of history-making as the result of the balance of forces between different actors/agencies in a social formation. In the worlds of Karl Marx:
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. (Marx (1852/1958): 247)
Not only is history made under conditions not chosen by the people involved, but interpretations of the transformation processes confront each other and reflect an arena of struggle where opposing positions face each other. This axiom applies with equal strength, or even more forcibly, in...
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Schmidt, J.D., Hersh, J. (2019). Eurocentrism and Imperialism. In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_120-1
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