Brumaire

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• Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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• "Marx penned a wonderful aphorism on the balance of freedom and necessity at the beginning of his pamphlet The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please."

  Academic text (1992)

• Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

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• As Marx wrote in his Eighteenth Brumaire, 'men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please'" (1991:121).

  Academic text (1996)

• See Marx's "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" for the distinction between the Paris Commune and the communist revolution. #17.

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• Marx, Karl. "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte." The Marx-Engels Reader. Ed. Robert C. Tucker. New York: Norton, 1978. 594-617.

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• (n13) "Transitionists" should keep in mind the first page of The Eighteenth Brumaire, where Marx observes that "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past."

  Academic text (1991)

• "The same" was not true of Marx, who from exile could write the 18th Brumaire, or of Trotsky, who from confinement in Turkey could write profoundly about daily developments in Berlin." (27).

  Academic text (1995)

• The coup d'état of Brumaire 18, 1799, marked a pivotal moment in French history.

• Historians often discuss the significance of Brumaire in the context of the French Revolution.

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