The Eighteenth Brumaire Of Louis Bonaparte
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; stamp on fep; some foxing on the front cover, otherwise internally sound.
Few works of political theory have retained such devastating analytical power across nearly two centuries as Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Written in the white heat of contemporary events between December 1851 and March 1852, the work dissects the coup d'état of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte — the nephew of the great Napoleon — who seized dictatorial power in France, exposing the farce of history repeating itself as tragedy first, then as comedy. Marx chronicles the tumultuous class struggles of the French Second Republic with razor-sharp precision, unmasking how the bourgeoisie, the peasantry, and the Lumpenproletariat each played their fatal roles in surrendering republican liberty to a mediocre adventurer cloaked in imperial glory. Beyond its immediate political subject, this landmark text presents Marx's foundational theory of historical materialism in some of its most brilliant and accessible formulations, including the immortal opening lines on history's repetitions. Marx's prose here is uniquely vivid — sardonic, polemical, and dense with classical allusion — illustrating how ideology and class interest conspire to produce political outcomes that defy the will of the very actors who create them. Published by the Foreign Languages Press in Peking, this edition stands as a testament to the text's global revolutionary reach, leaving the reader to ask: in an age of resurgent strongmen, has history found yet another Brumaire to repeat?
Author: Karl Marx
Format: Paperback
Published: 1978, Foreign Languages Press, Peking
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; stamp on fep; some foxing on the front cover, otherwise internally sound.
Few works of political theory have retained such devastating analytical power across nearly two centuries as Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Written in the white heat of contemporary events between December 1851 and March 1852, the work dissects the coup d'état of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte — the nephew of the great Napoleon — who seized dictatorial power in France, exposing the farce of history repeating itself as tragedy first, then as comedy. Marx chronicles the tumultuous class struggles of the French Second Republic with razor-sharp precision, unmasking how the bourgeoisie, the peasantry, and the Lumpenproletariat each played their fatal roles in surrendering republican liberty to a mediocre adventurer cloaked in imperial glory. Beyond its immediate political subject, this landmark text presents Marx's foundational theory of historical materialism in some of its most brilliant and accessible formulations, including the immortal opening lines on history's repetitions. Marx's prose here is uniquely vivid — sardonic, polemical, and dense with classical allusion — illustrating how ideology and class interest conspire to produce political outcomes that defy the will of the very actors who create them. Published by the Foreign Languages Press in Peking, this edition stands as a testament to the text's global revolutionary reach, leaving the reader to ask: in an age of resurgent strongmen, has history found yet another Brumaire to repeat?