historical analysesâ€"thus he also makes a claim for
             himself as a scientist. As a result of the broad bases upon which his
             claims are made, Marx's thought has been considered and critiqued by a wide
             variety of scholars associated with a similarly wide number of fields. But
             it would, of course, be similarly unfair to limit Marx's wide appeal to the
             fact that he simply integrated a number of previously discrete fields of
             study in creating his systematic materialist philosophy of history.
             Indeed, Marx's fame is a result of his groundbreaking techniques of
             historical analysis as much as anythin
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