The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
by Karl Marx
- Pages
- about 147
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 2.7 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
The first edition of this translation was published in New York in
1897. Ten years later we purchased the plates and copyright and
brought out an edition in paper covers. The type was small and the
printing unattractive, but the demand for the book continues, and we
now offer a new edition from new plates. The translation is unchanged
except for a few slight verbal corrections, and we are reprinting the
introduction by the translator just as originally written. The events
of sixteen years have in many ways confirmed his forecast, and the
spectacular figure of Theodore Roosevelt now offers a striking
parallel to that of Napoleon the Little.
“The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte” is one of Karl Marx’ most
profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best
work extant on the philosophy of history, with an eye especially upon
the history of the Movement of the Proletariat, together with the
bourgeois and other manifestations that accompany the same, and the
tactics that such conditions dictate.
The recent populist uprising; the more recent “Debs Movement”; the
thousand and one utopian and chimerical notions that are flaring up;
the capitalist manoeuvres; the hopeless, helpless grasping after
straws, that characterize the conduct of the bulk of the working
class; all of these, together with the empty-headed, ominous figures
that are springing into notoriety for a time and have their day, mark
the present period of the Labor Movement in the nation a critical
one. The best information acquirable, the best mental training
obtainable are requisite to steer through the existing chaos that the
death-tainted social system of today creates all around us. To aid in
this needed information and mental training, this instructive work is
now made accessible to English readers, and is commended to the
serious study of the serious.
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