Tag: Eighteenth Brumaire

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  • The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)

    - Marx, Karl. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Marxists.org.
    Excerpt: “Hegel remarks somewhere[*] that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Caussidière for Danton, Louis Blanc for Robespierre, the… More

Commentary

  • “On ‘Avineri’s Marx: An Exchange.’”

    - Masters, Roger D. “On ‘Avineri’s Marx: An Exchange.’” Political Theory, Vol. 5 (1977), pp. 257–260.
    Excerpt: ” In answering a critique of his book on Marx, Shlomo Avineri cited a letter from a friend who was in France during les evenements of May 1968. Gilbert, in rebutting this rebuttal, asks how the unnamed corre- spondent would account for… More