I prefer Marx's version, "history repeats itself... first as tragedy, then as farce"[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Napol

I prefer Marx's version, "history repeats itself... first as tragedy, then as farce"[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Napoleon#.22History_repeats_..._first_as_tragedy.2C_then_as_farce.22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Lou...