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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 existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
Marx made another observation, and frankly, I could not craft a more apt description of Malcolm Turnbull's current predicament: 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.
As Karl Marx famously remarked, in "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon," "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".
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".
As a crotchety German pointed out long ago, "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".
In the opening paragraphs of his classic "The Eighteenth Brumaire," he offers those famous lines: "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".
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