irony of history

condemned the royalists to help overthrow the monarchy they loved and destined them to conserve the republic they hated.

Recast in definition form from: “They, condemned by history to help to overthrow the monarchy they loved, were destined by it to conserve the republic they hated.”

made the National's old foreign editor France's Foreign Minister, so that he might refute every one of his articles in every one of his dispatches.

Recast in definition form from: “The irony of history made Bastide, the ex-editor for foreign affairs of the National, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, so that he might refute every one of his articles in every one of his dispatches.”

had capitalism, which turned everything into commodities and set free contract in place of custom, make the decisive breach in the arranged marriage that suited it so well.

Recast in definition form from: “And yet – there are no limits to the irony of history – capitalist production itself was to make the decisive breach in it. By changing all things into commodities, it dissolved all inherited and traditional relationships, and, in place of time-honored custom and historic right, it set up purchase and sale, “free” contract.”

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irony of history