If history is written by the winners, then trying to understand the world by studying history is to side with the winners by "thinking like them."
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at least in the sense of victors or conquerors. BTW, 'understand', not 'ubdersrand.'
There’s a mainstream orthodox history though. The goodness/badness of the interpretation changes depending on who currently is “winning”. The raw material from both sides are readily available as you mention.
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E.g. because the nazis “lost” it’s very difficult to get into the headspace of nazism as “good”. There’s something “dirty” about it even though it’s a good exercise in understanding “evil”.
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