Marx’s eighteenth brumaire of louis bonaparte: Democracy, dictatorship, and the politics of class struggle

Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 103-128

  Carver, Terrell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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19. The phrase “materialist interpretation of history” derives from Engels.
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33. Communist Manifestofamously details the power and achievements of the bourgeoisie in order to set the context for the proletarian side of class struggle; in Marx, Later Political Writings, 1-12.
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35. Philip Thody, French Caesarism from Napoleon I to Charles de Gaulle (Basingstoke, 1989), chap. 2 and 161 n. 9.
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42. The German text reads: “So lange also der Name der Freiheit respektiert und nur die wirkliche Ausfuhrung derselben verhindert wurde, auf gesetzlichem Wege versteht sich, blieb das konstitutionelle Dasein der Freiheit unversehrt, unangetastet, mochte ihr gemeines Dasein noch so sehr todtgeschlangen sein.
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46. The German text reads: “Sie machten damit nur den ohnmachtigen Versuch, noch als parlamentarische Minoritat, als welche sie sich schon prophetisch im Geiste erblickten, eine Macht auszuu¨ben, die in diesem Augenblicke, wo sie u¨ber die parlamentarische Majoritat verfugten und u¨ber alle Mittel der Regierungsgewalt, taglich mehr ihren schwachen Handen entschlu¨pfte.
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49. These theories are surveyed in Richter, “Toward a Concept of Political Illegitimacy,” 185-214, esp. 192, 196.
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51. Thody, French Caesarism, 49, 153.
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