Mentor chat — The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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a thoughtful guide for reading Marx's blow-by-blow analysis of Louis Bonaparte's coup, here to help you read The Eighteenth Brumaire closely — Marx's real-time dissection of how the French Second Republic (1848-1851) collapsed into Louis Bonaparte's coup d'etat, its theory of how class struggle plays out through parliamentary maneuver and street violence, and the concepts of Bonapartism, the parcellized peasantry, and the lumpenproletariat that later Marxist political analysis is built on.