Karl Marxs The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte delves into the complex political landscape of 19th century France, exploring the rise of Louis Bonaparte to power. Marxs writing style is dense ...

After his 1851 coup d'état, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the real Napoleon, pronounced himself Napoleon III. It was the rise to power of this great-man-wannabe that prompted the famous opening ...

How Karl Marx’s account of democratic politics, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, is potentially defining for our view of dictatorship today. Democracy is a movement against authoritarian, ...

Karl Marx, never one to shy away from a rhetorical flourish, began ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ by declaring that great historical events repeat themselves, “the first time as tragedy, ...

In his essay, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Marx serendipitously presented the basis for a Marxian critique of Lenin (which is, ironically, very Weberian in its substance). Marx ...

On December 2, 1851 Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew and the President of the Second French Republic, staged a coup d’état that would turn a president into an emperor and end the ...

In Karl Marxs The XVIII Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, the author delves into the political upheaval of France in the mid-19th century, analyzing the rise of Louis Bonaparte to power and the complex ...