The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis BonaparteKarl Marx
The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
by Karl Marx
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In this case, I think quoting the introduction to the The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Marx is more apt: Hegel says somewhere that great historic facts and personages recur twice. He forgot to add: "Once as tragedy, and again as farce."
on “Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions” ↗…Twain. “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte It maybe the other way round this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMoCM_FgLP8
on “The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)” ↗> Marx’s famous introduction to the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte—that history happens twice, first as tragedy, then as a farce—has become something of a leitmotif in the works of artists, cultural critics and journalists grappling with the absurd elements of political…
on “J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016)” ↗>As Žižek teaches us: everything happens twice -- first as tragedy, then as farce. That line actually originates from Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice...the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Žižek often references this concept, but…
on “Russian coders removed from Linux maintainers list” ↗…extensive work attempting to uncover the wondrous possibilities of early high capitalism before it collapsed under the rule of Louis Bonaparte, which was the subject of Marx’s quite famous article The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Disagree with Marx if you want but he did believe that capitalism, if left to run wild, would produce a new form of hypermobile, freely associating society, but when that gets close to happening in times…
on “The age of average (2023)” ↗…circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. — Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
on “When Virality Is the Message: The New Age of AI Propaganda” ↗…generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before,[...]" (Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852) [1] http://www.consecutio.org/2018/11/every-beginning-is-difficu... [2] "Nevertheless, the human mind has for more than 2,000 years sought in vain to get to the bottom of it all, whilst on the…
on “Books to Understand Economics” ↗^ The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx
on “US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job” ↗Like others have said, "The Communist Manifesto" is the easiest entry point. My copy also has "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" which some say is the work most descriptive of the US today. "The State and Revolution" by Lenin is a relatively easy and enlightening read as he talks about the nature of the capitalist state, the police,…
on “Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’” ↗