Karl Marx -- IR

Question 1

Agency, structure, history

Marx Quote

Answer 1

‘Men[sic] make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given, & transmitted from the past’

Question 2

Agency, structure, history

Meaning of Quote:
‘Men[sic] make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given, & transmitted from the past’

Answer 2

• Humans are agent, they can think and operate, but they can’t decide what context of which they should think and act, idea that ppl have agency
  o Big tension: determination of history and how it is at this point in time
  o Tension is there from the beginning