Political Science · Western Political Thought
In his 'The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte', Marx produced a masterpiece of contemporary __ revolutionary history.
ARussian
BGerman
CFrench ✓ Correct
DChinese
Correct answer: (C) French — The Eighteenth Brumaire deals with French revolutionary history, so the answer is French.
Explanation
★The Eighteenth Brumaire deals with French revolutionary history, so the answer is French.
★It analyses the 1851 coup by Louis Bonaparte, later Napoleon III, in France.
★Marx shows how class forces and accident combined to produce Bonaparte's rule.
★It opens with the famous remark that history repeats first as tragedy, then as farce.
★It also states that men make their own history, but not under conditions of their own choosing.
★The work is a classic application of historical materialism to a concrete event.
★So the revolutionary history here is French, not Russian, German or Chinese.
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