… an essentially anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more
humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.
“History generally, and the history of revolution in particular, is always richer in content, more varied, more many-sided, more lively and subtle than even” the best historian and the best methodologist can imagine. History is full of “accidents and conjunctures and curious juxtapositions of events” and it demonstrates to us the “complexity of human change and the unpredictable character of the ultimate consequences of any given act or decision of men”.
Feyerabend in Against Method 1962 citing here Lenin and Butterfield