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I prefer Slavoj Žižek’s “first time as a tragedy, second as a farce”.

• notlukesky 4y ago
  That was Karl Marx: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/karl_marx_382655 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/karl_marx_382655
  • taneq 4y ago
    Maybe the first time. ;)
  • grey-area 4y ago
    In a fun essay named The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, though apparently lifted by Marx from a letter to him by Engels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Bonaparte https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_L... So really it was Engels.
    • pmontra 4y ago
      "First time is not first, second time is an inaccurate citation." Could we settle on this?
      • vanderZwan 4y ago
        Isn't that more or less Stigler's Law of Eponymy? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
        • isamuel 4y ago
          That was someone else.