8/13 Readings | Marx and Engels on The Counter-Revolution in Germany 1848 & The Eighteenth Brumaire and Herbert Marcuse’s Counterrevolution and Revolt — in these early days of a Counterrevolution

Oscar Luckett

Primary text:

Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany, 1848 (1851-1852)

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)

  • in Later Political Writings, trans. Terrell Carver (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 31-127.

  • in The Marx-Engels Collected Works, Vol. 11 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1979), p. 101-197

  • online at marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire

Secondary text:

Herbert Marcuse’s Counterrevolution and Revolt (New York: Beacon Press, 1972)

Additional Resources:

Bernard E. Harcourt, The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (New York: Basic Books, 2018)

Stuart Hall, Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016)

Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation, (Boston: Harvard University Press, 2021)