@fernandoh

Individuals play a significant but limited role in history.Great individuals (leaders, thinkers, inventors) can accelerate, delay, or slightly redirect historical processes, but they rarely create the fundamental direction.The deeper currents—economic structures, technological development, demographic trends, class contradictions, and cultural inertia—usually determine the main path. People ride these waves more than they create them.A single person can be the spark (Gavrilo Princip), the catalyst (Martin Luther), or the symbol (Gandhi), but almost never the root cause.History is mostly structural, occasionally punctuated by individuals.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#p48

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