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East Asian History

.... regards to social history, Karl Marx recreated the methods to understand the past and argued through his new methodological approach that the study of society, economics and history should start from the idea that It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. (Marx, 1972) Marx went further and created the classical terms of production relations and class struggle that went on and became basic principles of the communist regimes that started at the beginning of the 20th century. From a social historical analysis perspective, Marx argued that the foundation of civilization is generation and reproduction of resources that create the social relations and social stratification that, later on, create inter-class conflict and inter-states conflict.
On this idea, Max Weber argued that not all development of societies is connected with economy and production relations and that capitalism was fostered by a religious movement Protestantism. (Weber, 2005)
Current social history has gained a lot from these two important philosophers yet the question of validity is permanent. How valid and significant can these two types of analysis be in the modern historiography? Although seen in many circles as outdated and