The 18th Brumaire of Napoleon Bonaparte contained the timeline of the French revolution. The first revolution took place in 1789-1799 wherein the bourgeoisie overthrew the Bourbon dynasty. This is also the time when Napoleon Bonaparte ousted the constitutional government that was established by the bourgeoisie class. After Bonaparte overthrew the government, he held the power himself. Meanwhile, the second revolution occurred when the revolt against Louis Philippe took place. In the second revolution, the bourgeoisie republic was also established or what is known as constituent national assembly. Eventually, revolts of the proletariat happened and Louis Bonaparte was elected as president of the bourgeoisie republic.
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The whole Brumaire was anchored and from Marx’s polarity; the tragedy and the farce. The Brumaire helped in the understanding and illustrating the complexities of what Marx wrote. The events that are presently happening, with regard to Marx’s historical materialism, is related to the past. However, this does not entirely mean that history repeats itself, but it is deeply engrained on what happened in the past. The Brumaire implied that people in the society have the freedom to build their own account history. The present objective condition also plays a pivotal role on how the society …show more content…
Analyzing the law in relation to history, all historical events be it political, economic, or religious, are all clear effect of the divide between classes. Karl Marx somehow applied this to understand the accounts in the French Revolution. The Eighteenth Brumaire, in general, is more of a narrative type text which accounts history and provided broad historical account.
Politics as a vocation is a lecture delivered by Max Weber in Munich. It was a part of the Lecture Series, Science as a Vocation. It contains Weber’s insights and knowledge on the modern political system. Weber’s lecture revolved around elaborating politics as a profession and his definitions of state and politics, and his type of legitimate authority.
Weber defined state as “a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force”. For him, the state is hinged upon violence. Combining his definition of state and the relationship of state and violence, one may infer that Weber has this idea that there is force and violence explicit to a state. Weber further explained the development of the state through the pursuit for power. According to him, the state controls the legitimate use of power. Moreover, the state cannot be defined through its ends but rather, through its needs. The state developed through the legitimate authority of the use of violence (Weber,
In understanding the bourgeoisie …show more content…
The whole Brumaire was anchored and from Marx’s polarity; the tragedy and the farce. The Brumaire helped in the understanding and illustrating the complexities of what Marx wrote. The events that are presently happening, with regard to Marx’s historical materialism, is related to the past. However, this does not entirely mean that history repeats itself, but it is deeply engrained on what happened in the past. The Brumaire implied that people in the society have the freedom to build their own account history. The present objective condition also plays a pivotal role on how the society …show more content…
Analyzing the law in relation to history, all historical events be it political, economic, or religious, are all clear effect of the divide between classes. Karl Marx somehow applied this to understand the accounts in the French Revolution. The Eighteenth Brumaire, in general, is more of a narrative type text which accounts history and provided broad historical account.
Politics as a vocation is a lecture delivered by Max Weber in Munich. It was a part of the Lecture Series, Science as a Vocation. It contains Weber’s insights and knowledge on the modern political system. Weber’s lecture revolved around elaborating politics as a profession and his definitions of state and politics, and his type of legitimate authority.
Weber defined state as “a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force”. For him, the state is hinged upon violence. Combining his definition of state and the relationship of state and violence, one may infer that Weber has this idea that there is force and violence explicit to a state. Weber further explained the development of the state through the pursuit for power. According to him, the state controls the legitimate use of power. Moreover, the state cannot be defined through its ends but rather, through its needs. The state developed through the legitimate authority of the use of violence (Weber,