Brumaire

“Men make their own history,” wrote Karl Marx in The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

With the Abbe Sieyès, Talleyrand and Napoleon organized the overthrow of the Directory on Nov. 9, 1799 — the 18th Brumaire, as it was called by the revolutionary calendar.

His contextualised critique extends to Marx's early attempts at communist ideology in The Paris Manuscripts, as well as the historical materialism of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

There’s a line of Marx’s I love from “The 18th Brumaire Of Louis Napoleon”: “First time tragedy, second time farce.”

By the coup d'Etat of the 18 Brumaire.