Karl Marx: Modern Revolutionary

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make under the 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 on the brain of the living .And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things, in creating something
entirely new, precisely in such epochs revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up spirits of the past to their service an borrow from them names, battle slogans and costumes in order to present
the new scene of world history in this time-honored disguise and this borrowed language,'(Tucker, Ed. 595)
Karl Heinrich Marx; a name, which is often a victim of slanderous, misguided interpretations put forth by those blinded by the evils of modern day or likely past actions of communist nations of the world. …