Abstract
M.A.
Marxist historiography started during the late sixties and early seventies
in response to the so-called "crisis" in the social sciences. The inability
of these sciences to explain prolonged poverty and backwardness in areas
of capitalist development and dependency in areas in close connection with
the capitalist core, directed social scientists towards Marxist explanations.
The conventional explanation of the implacability of capitalist development
with racial stratification no longer rendered any explanation of Third World
circumstances, since, especially in the South African case, the economy maintained
high growth rates in spite of and under circumstances of sustained and
intensified racial differentiation...