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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is an essay written by Karl Marx in 1852. It examines the French Revolution of 1848 and the subsequent 1851 coup d'état by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. Marx applies his theory of historical materialism to analyze how class struggles in France allowed a Bonapar...
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Widely acclaimed political analysis combining historical detail, memorable prose, and enduring insights into class and authoritarianism.
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This publication is a pamphlet comprising selected excerpts from Das Kapital, the foundational critique of political economy written by Karl Marx and originally published in 1867. The source material analyzes the mechanisms of capitalism, detailing concepts such as the commodity form, the labor theo...
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Excerpts convey a monumental critique of capitalism, but lose Marx's cumulative analysis while retaining considerable density and controversy.
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