Is 2016 the new 1936?

Slow recovery from a global financial crash leading to political polarization, beggar-my-neighbour trade wars, and the rise of ultra-nationalist leaders. Sound familiar?
German leader Adolf Hitler, right, at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Germany, Feb. 6, 1936.
“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” —Karl Marx, 1852   LONDON, U.K.—We would all prefer a farce to a tragedy, so let us hope that Marx ...

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