Class Divide.

The article presents the author's views on his experience of teaching a 19th-century European history survey course in the U.S., highlighting his strategies to address the ideological divide in the classroom. He states that several of his students in the course refused to engage with the book "Communist Manifesto" that contextualizes Karl Marx's theories in unionization, worker representation, and European parliamentary politics. Also discussed are the challenges that he faced in teaching.