《光明日报》2000年6月27日刊登报道《赵家祥澄清对马克思一个命题的误解》。文章说,学术界对马克思在《给<祖国纪事>杂志编辑部的信》中关于“一般历史哲学理论”的论述存在一些误解。北京大学哲学系教授赵家祥认为,马克思批判米海洛夫斯基时所反对的是把一般历史哲学理论当作万能钥匙到处生搬硬套,而不是否认存在一般历史哲学 Guangming Daily published a report on June 27, 2000 that Zhao Jiaxiang clarified his misunderstanding of one of Marx’s propositions. The article said that there are some misunderstandings in the academic circles about Marx’s “General Theory of Historical Philosophy” in his letter to the Editorial Department of Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Motherland. Zhao Jiaxiang, a professor of philosophy at Peking University, argues that what Marx rejects when criticizing Mikhailovsky is that he uses the general philosophy of history as an omnipotent key instead of denying the existence of a general philosophy of history