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History is doomed to repeat itself
Those that don't know history (because they can't read)...
And willful ignorance
Engels in a letter to Marx, 1851
(As a side-note, neither Marx nor Engels believed this to be much more than a witty observation, meaning: They did not assume this was some sort of grand law of history, just a tendency of similar dynamics persisting and reoccurring.)