Consensus of educated Western people about history, identity, core cultural values. History requires representation, mediation, in narrative, a story-form encoded as historical. Multiculturalism, competing views of history and tradition. Hence empathy with the victor invariably benefits the rulers.
Historical materialists know what that means.
Whoever has emerged victorious participates to this day in the triumphal procession in which the present rulers step over those who are lying prostrate. According to traditional practice, the spoils are carried along in the procession. They owe their existence not only to the efforts of the great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. For every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably. No individualism or individual style, voice, expressive identity.