The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. Karl Marx

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon was written by Karl Marx in 1852. In it, he discusses the French coup in 1851 and how recent French history shows the class struggle. It is famous for one of Marx's most memorable quotes, «Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past».