 | Francis Beckett - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 1018 pages
...history,' he wrote in his Eighteenth Brumaire (1852), 'but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by...themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered and inherited from the past.'124 According to Wilson, the idea that people make history took over the... | |
 | Brian Belton - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2005 - 216 pages
...that are capitalist in character. Men do not make their own history . . . not 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. (Marx 1935, 13) The next section will expand on this perspective... | |
 | Leonardo A. VillalÃ3n, Peter VonDoepp - Political Science - 2005 - 342 pages
...less shrewd for its overuse: "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" (1978, 595). Giddens, among others, has given over a considerable... | |
 | Jeremy D. Popkin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 350 pages
...these authors are formulating resembles Karl Marx's statement that "men make their own history, but they do not make it ... under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past."4 Every human life is lived in specific historical circumstances,... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Volker Meja - Social Science - 2011 - 451 pages
...direction which can be effective. "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." And in the making of history, ideas and ideologies play... | |
 | Brian Belton - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2005 - 216 pages
...that are capitalist in character. Men do not make their own history . . . not 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. (Marx 1935, 13) The next section will expand on this perspective... | |
 | Eric Davis - History - 2005 - 404 pages
...Jersey March 2003 Introduction 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 dead generations weighs like a nightmare... | |
 | Leszek Kołakowski - History - 2005 - 1324 pages
...institutions, and ideology. '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 Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, I.) Strictly... | |
 | Peris Jones, Kristian Stokke - Political Science - 2005 - 302 pages
...Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: "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" (Marx 1972:437). The second explanation, and the one I... | |
 | Michael Shermer - Science - 2005 - 348 pages
...The Eighteenth Brumaire): "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." A question arises from this: Can we find a repeatable... | |
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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 encountered, given and transmitted from the past. 
