If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

White’s remark compresses three competing explanations of historical change into a single, wry triad. “Luck” stands for contingency—accidents, personalities, and unforeseeable turns that derail grand plans. “Marx” represents materialist and structural accounts: class conflict, economics, and social forces that shape outcomes beyond individual intent. “God” gestures to providential or religious interpretations that see history as guided by transcendent purpose. By saying the three have “made history…together,” White suggests that no single framework suffices; real historical causation is a messy blend of chance, structure, and belief. The line also reflects a journalist-historian’s skepticism toward monocausal theories.