Marx's 'Eighteenth Brumaire': (Post)Modern Interpretations
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4 May 1848 up to the end of May 1849, is the period of constituting, founding the bourgeois republic. Just after the February days the dynastic opposition was surprised by the republicans, the republicans by the socialists, indeed all France by Paris. The constituent assembly, drawn from the votes of the entire nation, met on 4 May 1848 and represented the whole. It was a living protest against the aspirations of the February days and was to reduce the achievements of the revolution to bourgeois
the leaders took satisfaction in being able to blame the ‘people’ for desertion, and the people in charging the leaders with fraud. Seldom had a charge been sounded with greater alarum than the impending campaign by the montagne, seldom had an event been trumpeted with greater certainty or further in advance than the inevitable victory of democracy. This is for certain: the democrats have faith in the trumpeting that breached the walls of Jericho. And as often as they confront the ramparts of
of more than half a million civil servants, so holding an immense number of individual interests and livelihoods in abject dependence; where the state restricts, controls, regulates oversees and supervises civil life from its most all-encompassing expressions to its most insignificant stirrings, from its most universal models of existence to the private existence of individuals; where through the most extraordinary centralisation this parasite acquires an all-knowing pervasiveness, an enhanced
fisherman who led a Neapolitan rebellion against Spanish rule in 1647] – in any case one fishwife outweighed 17 grandees [of the ‘party of order’] in terms of real power – so in the same way, after the introduction of the commissioners’ bill, he inspired the lieutenants who were wined and dined at the Elysée, and again on 25 November [1851] he enthralled the industrial bourgeoisie who had gathered at the circus [in Paris] to receive their prize medals for the Great [Industrial] Exhibition in
separation and the potential antagonism between state and civil society (and hence the existence of a specific type of political scene and its possible disjunctions from the economy) depend on a particular form of economic organisation. Second, and, for present purposes, more important, the economic ‘base’ is treated, rightly or wrongly, as the ultimate source of the social or material conditioning of political struggles. Here Marx refers both to the changing economic conjunctures and successive