"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please;
they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already,
given and transmitted from the past.
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."
This evening FC Selbstveränderung failed in their attempt to reach division 4 after the play-off game with ToMy Medgidia FC ended in defeat on penalties. FC Selbstveränderung were competitive throughout the game but penalties proved just too much for the team.
Ultimately the season ends with a failure, after what has been a successful change in the fortunes of the club with the revolution in management structure and rationale at the commencement of last season. Nonetheless it should be remembered that the expectation at the start of this season was to retain division 5 status after promotion. On this basis the season has been a success, and as stated last week the play-off game should be seen as the 'first fruits' of the ideology for the club.
We shall therefore continue to fight to achieve the ideology already formulated previously. This evening is a small set back to what is the historical inevitability of FC Selbstveränderung pushing on up the leagues, to one day compete at the very highest level within the Final League.
We continue to have our problems with what are the traditions of this system, especially the tradition of settling games with penalty shoot-outs. But we continue our revolution in order to revolutionize the league itself, and will continue to review at each step our actions critically in order to achieve our aims: and of course we'll never rest on our laurels because we know that;
"Bourgeois revolutions, like those of the eighteenth century, storm more swiftly from success to success, their dramatic effects outdo each other, men and things seem set in sparkling diamonds, ecstasy is the order of the day – but they are short-lived, soon they have reached their zenith, and a long Katzenjammer [hangover] takes hold of society before it learns to assimilate the results of its storm-and-stress period soberly.
On the other hand, proletarian revolutions, like those of the nineteenth century, constantly criticize themselves, constantly interrupt themselves in their own course, return to the apparently accomplished, in order to begin anew; they deride with cruel thoroughness the half-measures, weaknesses, and paltriness of their first attempts, seem to throw down their opponents only so the latter may draw new strength from the earth and rise before them again more gigantic than ever, recoil constantly from the indefinite colossalness of their own goals – until a situation is created which makes all turning back impossible, and the conditions themselves call out:
Hic Rhodus, hic salta!"