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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.