History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Men [sic] 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.

(Marx, 1963)

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.