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An analysis of the social and political conditions that enabled Louis Bonaparte’s seizure of power, tracing how competing class forces—peasantry, bourgeois factions, urban workers, and conservative elites—interacted and formed shifting alliances. The author argues that historical forms recur in altered, often parodic ways, and that personal ambition, party weakness, and institutional arrangements combined to translate economic and social conflicts into a distinct regime. The essay uses historical materialist reasoning to show how material conditions, ideology, and political tactics shape outcomes and limit political agency.

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Title: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Author: Karl Marx

Release date: February 19, 2006 [eBook #1346]
Most recently updated: October 29, 2024

Language: English

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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

by Karl Marx


Contents

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