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History is written by the winners.
This used to be one of my favourite phrases, until I realised that, actually, it is written by the one side that has better PR/marketing. It is mostly, but not always, the same as the winners.
History is rewriten again and again in realtime by a million "public relations" and "news" organizations.
Look at how the US often approaches things like the Confederacy. Especially with Texas controlling many of the books.
Source?
The winners
What did they win?
History
Right, so why do I know about how bad the "winners" are?
Because there's some dedicated Marxists that shine light on it with historical materialist analysis trying to fight the winners hegemonic Interpretation of history (the west are the winners and the baddies)
Ironically imperialist, but yes I wasn't actually asking why there are histories critical of settler-colonialism and capitalist hegemony.