Professor Sylvester Odion Akhaine In his Concept of History, Walter Benjamin of the Frankfurt School, poses the question: “With whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize?”, and he says: The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time. This says quite enough to the historical materialist.
