The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
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- 1 November 2018
- book chapter
- Published by Bloomsbury Academic
Abstract
ExtractGavin Walker Perhaps the most widely influential text in the Marxian corpus, beyond Capital and the Manifesto of the Communist Party, is The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, which was first published in the New York based Die Revolution in 1852 (see also the exhaustive publication history of the text in Marx 1985a: 679–705) . Grounded in a withering historical and political analyzis of the Napoleonic coup of 1851, the Eighteenth Brumaire (named hereafter, EB) remains a decisive source for the development of Marxist theoretical analyzis. It offers a remarkably prescient analyzis of the development and structure of fascism as well as a rich theoretical understanding of the nature of historical time, and of the tendency of political cycles and forms to repeat. In addition, it offers us a different image of Marx’s thought, one not grounded in the kind of critique of political economy we find in Capital, but...Keywords
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