...mutual effect underscores the difference between individual and social ideas. As Marx famously noted, "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please . . . but under circumstances transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs...

...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,...

...Human will and action, however, never appear in a vacuum. Marx's famous formulation comes to mind: "Men make their own history, but they do not make...encountered, given and transmitted from the past" (Marx 1852, quoted in Cornforth 1954, 30). To sort out the ways in which the vast multiplicity of human individual...

...for instance, to imagine a text that is more evocative of the way that the past haunts the present: Men make their own history, but they do not make it...encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just...

...to Reeve, March 26, 1853); Democracy, I: 46; "France Before the Revolution," 204. Compare to Marx: "Men make their own history, but they do not make...encountered, given, and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare [literally, "like an Alp"] on the...

...support. 1 dedicate this book to you. INTRODUCTION Family Transformations from a Sociological Perspective Men make their own history, but they do not make it...encountered, given, and transmitted from the past. —Karl Marx In his seminal work The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills writes, "Neither the...

...moved between more Existentialist and more Marxian formulations, but crucially, to a Marxian thesis — "Men make their own history but they do not make it...encountered, given and transmitted from the past" — Sartre responds (1956) that while individuals make their history on the foundation of prior conditions,...

...Problems in Social Theory [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979]). Similarly, Marx observed that "men make their own history, but they do not make...encountered, given and transmitted from the past" (Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte [New York: International Publishers, 1963], 15). "New"...

...hand, I also concur with a statement made by the young Marx before he succumbed to dogmatic holism: "Men make their own history, but they do not make...directly encountered, given, and transmitted from the past."13 Teasing out the extent to which Americans have had historical agency, and the extent to which...

...quoted passage Marx is clear about the dualist position that he advocates. He says that people 'make their own history, but they do not make it just as...encountered, given and transmitted from the past' (Marx and Engels, 1968: 96). It is precisely the encounter between creative (and transformative) human activity...