historiographers

Who Said Men Make Their Own History?

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Who Said Men Make Their Own History? As Marx put it most succinctly in his 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte from 1852: “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.”

What Is The Meaning Of History Repeats Itself First As Tragedy Second As Farce?

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What Is The Meaning Of History Repeats Itself First As Tragedy Second As Farce? 17 February 2018 – 7 October 2018. History is the recording of events describing human evolution. The German thinker Karl Marx once proposed that ‘history repeats itself’, suggesting that any event will likely occur and then recur, ‘first as tragedy, then