Back in 2016, I wrote a post, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald Trump, echoing one of Karl’s greatest hits, remarking as follows: In 1852, Karl Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, commemorating in contempt the seizure of power of Napoleon’s nephew in the previous year and coining the immortal one-liner, “History, Hegel tells…
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Mysterious chuckling reported in the vicinity of Karl Marx’s grave
Yeah, Herr Karl got a lot of things wrong, but his prediction that economic collapses would prove endemic to capitalism has yet to fail. Six months ago, if someone had asked you how likely it was that a mysterious epidemic arising in a major country would give rise to fears of a major global economic…
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald Trump
On November 9, 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte engineered a coup that made him First Consul and ended republican government in France. By the date of the Republican calendar then in effect in France, the date was 18 Brumaire in the year VIII.1 In 1852, Karl Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, commemorating in contempt…
Karl Marx: Yes, I am a Nazi. Why do you ask?
Karl Marx on Ferdinand Lassalle, a German revolutionary who, like Marx himself, was a spiritual child of the failed Revolution of 1848: It is now completely clear to me, that, as proven by the shape of his head and the growth of his hair, he [Lassalle] stems from the Negroes who joined the march of…