[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference: Menu of choices presented to a free will is socially determined c b Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:50:15 -0800 In other words: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it 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. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living." — Karl Marx (The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte) Bad faith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_%28existentialism%29