The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

This short essay examines the history of French political revolutions and explains how all of them were bourgeois revolutions. Bourgeois revolutions, of course, are not true revolutions but merely a shifting of power from one branch or mode of the bourgeoisie to another. According to Marx, a real revolution would strip the bourgeoisie of power and put the proletariat in charge.

It seems incredible now that anyone paid serious attention to Karl Marx's ideas.