Marx’s Works on France Trilogy

Significant revolutionary and counter-revolutionary events unfolded in France during Marx’s lifetime. His analysis of these developments are among the most essential and popular classics of Marxism, in which the method of scientific socialism is applied by Marx in the heat of events, as they were taking place.

Questions such as the nature of the state, the role of the individual in history and the necessity of revolutionary leadership of the working class – to name only a few – are explained by Marx throughout these works.

• The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
• The Civil War in France