Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital

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From 'The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte', commenting on historical recurrence.

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1852

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