The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Synopsis

Marx stated that the purpose of this essay was to "demonstrate how the class struggle in france created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero's part. "in doing so he applies the method of historical materialism and besides it's many other points of interest and importance it can serve readers as a practical instance of this particular method of historical analysisin this essay one finds marx's famous formulation of the role of the individual in history, "men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not…