Three page essay about the quotation I mentioned. The details are listed below.

Humanities

Write an essay 3 pages in length, on the following quotation. In the essay explain the concept to which the quotation refers, apply it to any modern socio-political or economic situation and argue for, or against, the utility of the concept as an accurate interpretation of the situation.

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”