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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 directly found, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of the dead generation weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living The Eighteenth Brumaire (Marx)

Marx was a clever fellow. Everything that is wrong with liberal economics and social conservatism is summed up by this little pith. And we still spend endless energy defending positions that are directly related to our agreement (or disagreement) with this paragraph.