What is transhistorical connections?

Question

give examples of it as well. Thanks!

Answer 1

Hey Reseespieces,

The following was copied from the first web site on the topic, and explains the theory with the example of economics.

In opposition to the widespread assumption that Marxism contributes little to our thinking about the past, present and future of democracy, I argue that Marxism makes an indispensable contribution. The theorem, central to historical materialism, that understanding the underlying process of exploitation is the key to understanding the relationship of rulers and ruled, has considerable heuristic power. This is most evident, not at the transhistorical level of abstraction required to apply historical materialism as a general theory of history, but rather in the historically specific analyses heuristically guided by the transhistorical concepts of the general theory. Hence we consider Marxist studies of democracy’s history. This view of democracy’s past establishes that capitalism and representative democracy, like earlier modes of production and state forms, are continuously in motion and can be transformed in a revolutionary manner. Thus Marxism enables us to grasp the dialectics of democracy in a history referring not only to time past but to future time. From this perspective socialism is democracy beyond capitalism.

The second is from the University of the State of New York at Albany (SUNY). You are into some heavy theories, and abstract concepts, good for you - keep thinking.