“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, and given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the living.’ Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852.”

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, and given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the living.’ Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852.”

— Victor Sebestyen