Karl Marx’s research while affiliated with Oxford Deanery and other places

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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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Karl Marx

In "The Eighteenth Brumaire," Marx traces the development of social forces in France that led to various changes in political leadership. Through all the specific discussion of French politics, Marx points out the difference between bourgeois revolutions and proletariat revolutions. Bourgeois revolutions are competitive with each other, short-lived, and unproductive. Proletarian revolutions, however, are more productive and longer lasting due to the ability that the proletariat has to constantly critique itself and re-center itself to acheive the best possible outcomes.

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... Often presented as a reactionary class formation, the lumpenproletariat possesses a controversial status in Marx's thought. See for instance his indictment of the alliance between the dispossessed, former laboring classes and the petite bourgeoisie with the parasite section of the finance aristocracy, which supported the rise of Louis Bonaparte in the midst of the workers' uprisings of 1848 (Marx, [1852(Marx, [ ] 1963. In fact, both Marx and Engels felt a deep aversion, disgust even, for this class formation: «Passively rotting mass», «offal», «knaves and outlaws… the scum of society», in Engels's words (Engels, [1850. ...

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Lumpen Logistics: Stop Working and Get Mad, or Get Mad and Have Fun
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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Karl Marx