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		grey-area on Nov 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ooh.directory In a fun essay named The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, though apparently lifted by Marx from a letter to him by Engels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_L... So really it was Engels.

pmontra on Nov 24, 2022 [–]

"First time is not first, second time is an inaccurate citation." Could we settle on this?

vanderZwan on Nov 24, 2022 | [–]

Isn't that more or less Stigler's Law of Eponymy?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy

isamuel on Nov 24, 2022 | | [–]

That was someone else.

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