Not Great Men

It seems to be more of a rant against the Great Man Metanarrative, which is the claim that history is made by great men who come around and revolutionize everything. The idea is silly, of course, because it doesn't take into account the social factors, material conditions, and blind chance that led these men to their positions of power. It also tends to ignore the poverty of the masses in favor of glorifying a guy who did nothing more than tell his troops to charge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man#Criticisms

It's a knee jerk reaction against the Annales school of thought in History.

(History is) not made by great men. Class struggle is the motor of History. But History books say otherwise.

History is written by the victors.

It is very straightforward and lyrics say all. History is not made by great men, but by people.

Nobody knows the names of protesters who had joined the Storming of the Bastille, at least individually. But they had changed the world, for example.

I love this song.

This song is a rant on revisionist history.

Not just revionist history, but history at all. It's made by the strong men, not "good" or "great". They're just getting great in our history books.