Watching a weird discussion I don't really want to butt in on, but it's conflicting for me because on one hand, I *DO* have a Marxist approach to studying history which I consider the only VALID approach to doing so, because I *AM* pretty sure the money, and the power to dehumanize SOME people for the purposes of extracting money/power from their suffering/labor IS the driving force behind the world you know today and how it was shaped that way on purpose by folks WITH money/power. (ct)