Watching recent events in Downing Street and comparing Thatcher and Truss, I’m reminded of Marx’s famous dictum in his brilliant journalistic account of the ’18th Brumaire’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Bonaparte: ‘History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce’
Marx on the 18th Brumaire’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Bonaparte: