Engels on Bourgeois Historiography

Engels on Bourgeois Historiography

The bourgeoisie turns everything into a commodity, hence also the writing of history. It is part of its being, of its condition for existence, to falsify all goods: it falsified the writing of history. And the best — paid historiography is that which is best falsified for the purposes of the bourgeoisie. 

Friedrich Engels, “History of Ireland”