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For a little over a decade after the ignominious collapse of the Revolution of 1848, Karl Marx worked as a professional journalist. Writing from London for newspapers in America and, eventually, on the Continent, he 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 of 1850 and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte of 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.
Together with Marx and Engels on Imperialism, this is the first book to select and bring together Marx's journalism around a conceptual theme, rather than a mere topic. Whatever the subject — the emergence of a new capitalist politics or the new unionism in Britain, post-1848 Chartism, the East India Company, European nationalisms, or the Taiping Rebellion in China — Marx and Engels' journalism is shown to constellate around "bonapartism," a concept that Marx critically appropriated from liberals distressed at the post-1848 order.
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Contents
Introduction: Beyond Dispute? Editing Marx after Marxism
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: The Second Opium War and the Indian Revolt of 1857-58
Introduction
The Anglo-Chinese Conflict January 23, 1857
English Atrocities in China April 10, 1857
Persia—China (Engels) June 5, 1857
The Revolt in the Indian Army July 15, 1857
The Indian Question August 14, 1857
The Indian Revolt September 16, 1857
Investigation of Tortures in India September 17, 1857
British Incomes in India September 21, 1857
British Atrocities in India April 5, 1858
Details of the Attack on Lucknow (Engels) May 25, 1858
The Annexation of Oude May 28, 1858
British Army in India (Engels) June 26, 1858
The Indian Bill July 24, 1858
History of the Opium Trade September 1858
Chapter 2: The Regime of Louis Bonaparte and the Post-1848 European Order
Introduction
The France of Bonaparte the Little April 5, 1856
The French Crédit Mobilier June-July 1856
The Monetary Crisis in Europe October 15, 1856
State of Europe—Financial State of France July 27, 1857
The Attempt Upon the Life of Bonaparte February 22, 1858
The Rule of the Pretorians March 12, 1858
The British Government and the Slave Trade July 2, 1858
Project for the Regulation of the Price of Bread in France December 15, 1858
Affairs in Prussia February 1, 1859
The War Prospect in France March 31, 1859
A Historic Parallel March 31, 1859
Chapter 3: Palmerston's Reelection as the Political Consolidation of Imperialism
Introduction
The Defeat of the Palmerston Ministry and the Election of 1857 March-April 1857
The Defeat of Cobden, Bright, and Gibson April 17, 1857
The English Bank Act of 1844 August 23, 1858
On Ernest Jones July 16, 1859
The Invasion Panic in England December 9, 1859
English Politics February 14, 1860
A Slander Trial December 24, 1861
Chapter 4: The American Civil War
Introduction
The American Question in England October 11, 1861
The London Times and Lord Palmerston October 21, 1861
The London Times on the Orleans Princes in America November 7, 1861
The Civil War in the United States November 7, 1861
A London Workers' MeetingFebruary 2, 1862
A Treaty Against the Slave Trade May 22, 1862
Criticism of American Affairs August 9, 1862
Comments on the North American Events October 12, 1862
Appendix 1: English Newspapers Quoted by Marx and Engels
Appendix 2: Newspapers for which Marx and Engels Wrote, 1851-62
Appendix 3: Chronology: Socialism, Marxism, and Imperialism, 1815-1899
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