1, contrary to seeking truth from facts: historical nihilism violates the principle of seeking truth from facts, and there is no seeking truth from facts, only the heart of grandstanding for history. In the name of "academic research", they don't respect historical facts, quote historical materials unilaterally, dress up history and assume history at will according to their own political demands, and change their scientific conclusions about major events, important people and important issues in modern history at will.
2. Contrary to the overall objectivity, historical nihilism takes a one-sided view of problems, makes subjective conclusions, overturns past judgments and presents them to readers in the form of "innovative achievements", which is more confusing for people who don't understand history. Take one point, not as good as the rest, or even make it out of nothing, turn over a verdict, distort and subvert history.
3. Negative class analysis: historical research should adhere to the method of class analysis. Engels once pointed out that all the history in the past, except the primitive state, is the history of class struggle.
Only by firmly grasping the basic facts of social and historical development and observing and analyzing social problems from the perspective of class and class struggle can we understand the essence of things, grasp the objective laws of social and historical development and recognize the trend of historical development through complex and changeable social phenomena.
The relationship between historical nihilism and nihilism is:
The concept of nihilism originated from the Latin "nihil", which means "nothing". It is historical nihilism to regard history as an accidental result without subject and deny historical materialism and historical regularity.
Historical nihilism recognizes individual phenomena in the historical process and denies the essence, analyzes the stages in the historical process in isolation and denies the integrity of its development, and pays one-sided attention to the tributaries in the historical process and denies its mainstream.
Historical nihilism holds that environmental factors such as geography, climate and cultural traditions determine the basic trend of history. Individuals are in the "inevitable" trend of history.
Have no choice but to do nothing; Even on the question of "can we do it", we intuitively get a positive answer, and we can't solve the problem of "how to do it". These two problems are the characteristics of historical nihilism. Therefore, the key and essence of historical nihilism is historical idealism.