The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540556141)

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon was an essay written by Karl Marx between December 1851 and March 1852. The essay discusses the French coup of 1851 in which Louis-Napol on Bonaparte assumed dictatorial powers. It shows Marx in his form as a social and political historian, treating actual historical events from the viewpoint of his materialist conception of history. Along with Marx's contemporary writings on English politics, the Eighteenth Brumaire is a principal source for understanding Marx's theory of the capitalist state. It also shows more criticism of the proletariat than might be associated with his other work, referring to the bureaucracy as a "giant parasitic body" and describing widespread perceptions of the proletariat as a "party of anarchy, socialism, and communism," a party paradoxically established on precepts of an oppositional "party of order."

Author: Karl Marx
ISBN-10: 154055614X
ISBN-13: 9781540556141
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2016
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.28d