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Ordinary history: our modern social historians often invoke Karl Marx, but have they read him?

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From: National Review
Date: 19961223
Author:Diggins, John Patrick

The revised National History Standards document remains flawed because it focuses on the dynamic of US history from the lower classes upward. Even Karl Marx acknowledged that the middle classes, not the working classes, were the force driving progress.

Our modern social historians often invoke Karl Marx, but have they read him?

THE National History Standards (NHS), a document that created a storm of controversy in 1994, compelling the Senate to vote overwhelmingly to condemn it, has been revised to the satisfaction of many of its critics. Yet the document still remains flawed ...

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