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American History

Fortinbras Armstrong

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2. When speaking of history repeating itself, remember what Karl Marx wrote

Reply to YoungDemCA (Original post)

Sun Sep 6, 2015, 05:17 AM

Sep 2015

In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."

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