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[scubastephanie]

"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, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."

-Karl Marx

Comments

[hiroshige_kenji]

I dont get it.

[scubastephanie]

History builds on itself and instituionalizes itself in new generations good or bad. In this quote's context it's bad. I guess the idea is simple but I like the way he presents it. It gives insight into why ideology like Karl Marx's was so hated, it was the proposition of a new concept/circumstance/tradition against an already established concept/circumstance/tradition.

[scubastephanie]

*institutionalizes

It was a creative parting from the obligations that people feel they have to their country's history.

[hiroshige_kenji]

Yeah...got that. So? Was there some personal relevance?

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