The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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161 pages

ISBN:
978-0-7178-0056-8
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OCLC Number:
41071383

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reviewed The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx

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Basically, this is the gold standard of what a Marxist analysis of history looks like. It's ground-zero, and it's worth reading for that purpose. Unfortunately, it's also boring as hell.

reviewed The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx

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This was really hard going. If I didn’t already know something about the French revolution I wouldn’t have understood a word - which is too bad because a lot of what he had to say about the aftermath of the revolution applied to various things we see happening now in this country (and the capitalist west generally). I wish I’d been in a better place mentally to cope with Marx. Maybe I’ll try rereading it some time in future.

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Subjects

  • France -- History -- Coup d'état, 1851.
  • France -- History -- February Revolution, 1848.
  • France -- History -- Second Republic, 1848-1852.