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The Peculiar Physiognomy of the Republic (opens the original)
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“… passion without truth, truth without passion; heroes without exploits, history without achievements …” “… Schlemihls in reverse, shadows that have lost their bodies …” I probably mentioned already the early academic critic of Marx who said that, in his depiction of politics in the Second Republic, he seemed to be angry at the time for defying his expectations. You could also say that he blamed the time itself for being complicated, for containing “the most motley mixture of crying contradicti
Two or Three Ways of Looking at a Reaction (opens the original)
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As I see it, in Chapter III of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Marx sketches out an argument about the democratic use of the word “reaction” that provides a polemical frame for the rest of the book. Granted, the argument just looks like an aside. And in my theory, Marx really didn’t plan to get into it. But in the view that I’m pursuing, he stopped himself and decided that he needed to contrast his view of everything that happened to another one. So he sketches out the contrast, then
And Another Thing about Democracy ... (opens the original)
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I’m bringing this newsletter to a close this year with a series of posts going through The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte in order, with a focus on the ill-fated idea of the “bourgeois republic.” It’s turning out to be fun for me to commit to interpretive ideas without being sure where they’ll lead. But also frustrating because I can’t go fast enough. This post is the third of three four about Chapter III. The first post was about composition history and the fact that Marx, while he wa
Factions, Interests, and the Origins of Theory (opens the original)
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This post is the second of I hope just three about chapter III of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. The first was mostly about its composition history and the evidence that what Marx was writing unexpectedly expanded quickly—from three articles into a little book with chapters. It also noted a little clue to a polemical context, an argument with democrats about their use of the word “reaction” to summarize what they were fighting against, in the name of the republic, in the years befor
The Rhetoric of Reaction and the Bourgeois Republic (opens the original)
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[My plan was to proceed at a pace of one post per month. This post is coming a little earlier for reasons explained below. It might have to be more like one post every three weeks, if I’m going to make it through the text this year, as I really hope to do. Sorry! This one’s the first of two or probably three about chapter III.] The third chapter (“III”) of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte includes one of the best illustrations of historical materialism and its central concept, ideology
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