The statement "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce" was given by:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Karl Marx
Karl Marx wrote this at the opening of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852). He took up a remark of Hegel that great events and persons appear twice in history, and added that the first time is a tragedy and the second a farce: Napoleon’s seizure of power was the tragedy, and his nephew Louis Bonaparte’s copy of it in 1851 the farce.