...which academic research and theory development takes place.3 The structure-agency problem [People] make their own history, but they do not make it just as...make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but in circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past. (Karl Marx4) It seems appropriate...

...not make their choices in a vacuum. As Marx argued in a much-quoted passage, men (and women) do make their own history, but they 'do not make it just as...make it under circumstances chosen by themselves' (Marx 1968: 98). The developing roles of NGOs need to be seen in the wider context of debates on the...

...people to remake their world. 'Men make their own history,' he wrote in his Eighteenth Brumaire (1852), 'but they do not make it just as they please; they...under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered and inherited from the past.'124 According to Wilson, the idea that...

...paraphrase of the well-known statement by Marx would seem appropriate: People do not make their history just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. But people do make their own...

...to social conditions that are capitalist in character. Men do not make their own history . . . not just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past. (Marx 1935, 13) The next section...

...to social conditions that are capitalist in character. Men do not make their own history . . . not just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past. (Marx 1935, 13) The next section...

...these authors are formulating resembles Karl Marx's statement that "men make their own history, but they do not make it ... under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past."4 Every human life is lived in specific...

...the institutions that enact and support it, can prevent change. Thus, Karl Marx could say, "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as...under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past" (Marx 1978 [1852], 595). Marx and...

...before me, I can hardly do better than approvingly quote Karl Marx's famous dictum that people "make their own history, but they do not make it just as...under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past."5 It is the historian's task to...

...fulcrum for negotiating thè meeting of internai and external worlds. As Marx suggested, "men make their own history, but they do not make it just as...under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from thè past". If fashion is a paradigm...