For a little over a decade after the ignominious collapse of the Revolution of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels worked as professional journalists. Writing from London for newspapers in the United States and, eventually, on the Continent, Marx continued while living in exile the analysis of the crisis of revolution that he first began in direct engagement with revolutionary events, most notably in The Class Struggles in France (1850) and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852). In what became a vast body of material, through this journalistic work Marx elaborated the critical concept of "bonapartism" first abumbrated in the latter book. Continuing his effort to learn the lesson of 1848, Marx concentrated on the crisis of modern society and the new mass democratic state that emerged, in the absence of the dictatorship of the proletariat, to meet that crisis. This volume is the first to compile the journalistic works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dealing with what they termed Bonapartism. The topics examined include the emergence of a new unionist capitalist politics in Britain, post-1848 Chartism, the East India Company, European nationalisms, and the Taiping Rebellion in China.
Spencer A. Leonard teaches history at the University of Virginia.
Chapter One-1848, Louis Bonaparte's Coup D'Etat, and Revolutionary Exile Introduction The Constitution of the French Republic Adopted November 4, 1848 June 14, 1851 Germany: Revolution and Counterrevolution (Engels) October 1851-December 1852 Real Causes Why the French Proletarians Remained Comparatively Inactive in December Last (Engels) February-April 1852 Review of the Literature on the Coup d'Etat (Georg Eccarius) September-December 1852 Movements of Mazzini and Kossuth-League with Louis Napoleon-Palmerston October 19, 1852 The Berlin Conspiracy April 18, 1853 The Berlin Conspiracy-London Police-Mazzini-Radetzky April 21, 1853 Position of England and France December 27, 1853 Review of Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Engels) August 1859 Chapter Two-British Politics, Society, and the Press 1852-53 Introduction General Election in Great Britain August-September 1852 Pauperism and Free Trade-The Approaching Commercial Crisis November 1, 1852 Attempts to Form a New Opposition Party November 25, 1852 A Superannuated Administration-Prospects of the Coalition Ministry-&c. January 28, 1853 The Duchess of Sutherland and Slavery February 9, 1853 Capital Punishment-Mr. Cobden's Pamphlet-Regulations of the Bank of England February 18, 1853 The Italian Insurrection-British Politics February 25, 1853 Chapter Three-Capitalist Globalization and the 1853 EIC Charter Renewal Introduction Revolution in China and in Europe June 14, 1853 India June 9, 1853 Sir Charles Wood's East Indian Reforms June 22, 1853 The British Rule in India June 25, 1853 The East India Company-Its History and Results July 11, 1853 The Government of India July 20, 1853 The East India Question July 25, 1853 The Future Results of British Rule in India August 8, 1853 Chapter Four-Late Chartism, the Irish Question, and the Factory System Introduction Irish Tenant Right July 11, 1853 Chartism July 14, 1853 Struggle Over the Ten Hours Bill July 22, 1853 Cabs-IrelandAugust 12, 1853 Strikes-I October 17, 1853 Strikes-II November 15, 1853 The Labor Question-I November 28, 1853 The Labor Question-II November-December 1853 Opening of the Labour Parliament March 24, 1854 Letter to the Labour Parliament March 18, 1854 The English Middle Class August 1, 1854 The Association for Administrative Reform June 8, 1855 Anti-Church Movement June 28, 1855 Speech at the Anniversary of the People's Paper April 19, 1856 Condition of Factory Laborers April 22, 1857
