This is the funniest thing about historians and, more than any other, the Marxists: they believe in historical laws and historical processes. They think history

This is the funniest thing about historians and, more than any other, the Marxists: they believe in historical laws and historical processes. They think history has a purpose and a meaning. They believe we are in an unavoidable journey towards what they think is progress. And they think their "progress" is the only possible progress. They look like those children laying in the grass and seeing images, forms and patterns in the clouds. But the patterns are not there, they are just imagined.