As President of the American Historical Association in 1933, Charles A. Beard gave this speech, from which we quote. In this single speech, Charles A. Beard compliments Karl Marx twice. This particular quote shows the perspective of the Progressive Historian, which the WSWS has chosen to slander in a most base manner:

Has our work done in the scientific spirit been useless? Must we abandon the scientific method? The answer is an emphatic negative. During the past fifty years historical scholarship, carried on with judicial calm, has wrought achievements of value beyond calculation. Particular phases of history once dark and confused have been illuminated by research, authentication, scrutiny, and the ordering of immediate relevancies. Nor is the empirical or scientific method to be abandoned. It is the only method that can be employed in obtaining accurate knowledge of historical facts, personalities, situations, and movements. It alone can disclose conditions that made possible what happened. It has a value in itself–a value high in the hierarchy of values indispensable to the life of a democracy. The inquiring spirit of science, using the scientific method, is the chief safeguard against the tyranny of authority, bureaucracy, and brute power.

Annual address of the president of the American Historical Association, delivered at Urbana. December 28, 1933. From the American Historical Review 39, no. 2, p. 219-231
https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/charles-a-beard

“The tyranny of authority, bureaucracy, and brute power,” are the methods of the Nanobureaucracy, which as Trotsky said, will be the chief obstacle for the success of the revolutionary movement of the working class.

Another point in defense of Beard: The Dewey Commission wrote to Beard to ask him to participate. He declined, he said, because he had already decided that Trotsky did not commit the crimes that Stalin charged him with.

As you can see from the above letter, Mackaman’s betrayal of Beard means the WSWS has betrayed Trotsky to the Stalinist witch-hunt. We see the same behavior in the WSWS trial by media against “conspiracy theorists” who challenge the veracity of Peter Daszak, removed from his various posts for “massive and outrageous” conflicts of interest and accused of hiding important records from a congressional investigation as well as “bullying” and “thuggery and intimidation” of scientists.

The attacks on science and history have a single perspective uniting them, and that is not Trotskyism. It is an attack on the Trotskyist movement and the advanced workers to keep them from the perspective of Trotskyism. The economic basis for this attack lies in the interests of the Nanobureaucracy, who predict that they can use control over the revolutionary party to maneuver first for a compromise with the capitalist government or, failing this, for a Bonapartist conspiracy to dominate a new revolutionary government into counterrevolutionary policies and political persecution. The revolutionary movement must put consciousness of this historical process into print and distribution. Then the revolution needs to decide upon a strategy to combat the influence of the Nanobureaucracy. That is the perspective of the Democratic Power Faction.