The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, by Karl Marx and Daniel de Leon: Translated by Daniel de Leon (December 14, 1852 - May 11, 1914)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon was written between December 1851 and March 1852, and originally published in 1852 in Die Revolution, a German-language monthly magazine. The pamphlet shows Marx in his form as a social and political historian, treating actual historical events-those leading up to Louis Bonaparte's coup d' tat of 2 December 1851-from the viewpoint of his materialist conception of history. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar-the day Louis Bonaparte's uncle Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d' tat. The work is the source of one of Marx's most quoted statements, that history repeats itself, "the first as tragedy, then as farce". Karl Marx 5 May 1818 - 14 March 1883) was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia to a middle-class family, he...
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