The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14

furt workers, tailor by trade, who
like myself crossed the Atlantic last
summer. When I told him of my
straits, he placed all his savings, a
sum of $40, at my disposal"
Weydemeyer was going to publish
the first issue of a magazine and
expected to include among other
maetrial an article by Marx. He
asked Marx to write on the coup
d'etat of Louis Bonaparte of De-
cember 2, 1851. When the last in
stalhnent of the article" arrived in
April. Weydemeyer did not need
any more copy for his first number
Of The Revolution. The entire
issue was devoted to the ARTICLE"
which was entitled: The Eighteenth
Brumaire Of Louis Bonaparte. The
Frankfurt worker who gave "all his
savings" for Weydemeyer's publish
ing project, made possible the pub
lication in New York of the first
edition OF one of the most brilliant
historical writings that came from
the pen of the greatest genius OF
the Nineteenth Century. The Eigh-
tenth Brumaire was published in
Europe only seventeen years later,
and Marx reports that only a few
hundred copies of the American
edition reached Europe after it's
publication.
In celebrating Marks Hath ami
versary American Marxists celebrate
the eightieth anniversary of the
publication in America of one of
his best works IN his literary herit-
age, as well as the anniversary OF
the appearance of the first Com
muntst journal in this country. Al
though penned four generations ago
The Eighteenth Brumaire, about
which Engels exclaimed 1T is. in
truth, the work of a genius" still
serves as Ia source book for the
study of class relations in society,
of revolution and comter-revolu-
ton, of class collaboration, of the
independent role of the proletariat,
of etty-bourgeois reformism, of the
role of the peasantry in the revo-
luton, of bourgeois democratic re-
volution-of many other fundamen-
tai problems of the theory and
practice of the revolutionary pro-
letarian movement.
The Eighteenth Brumaire is an
inspired work and, anyone who has
been under the spell of Marx bril-
liant analysis of the class relations
of the Second Republic and of the
developing ounter-revolution in
France, will readily agree with En-
gels following Characterization of
the book: Never have we had an
example Of SO fine a penetration
into the meaning of living history,
history as it is written before our
very eyes from day to day."
In studying The Eighteenth Bru-
MARIE, the workers must relate the
lessons of that important social
struggle in French history toI the
struggles of which they are them
selves a. part. AS Lenin himself
practiced and as he never tired of
adjuring US: "Marxism is not a
dogma, but a guide to action" we
must approach the study of the
classics of Marxism-Leninism with
this in view. We must tie up re-
evolutionary theory with revolution
airy practice, as Marx himself al
ways did. And Lenin, the most IL
lustrious pupil of MIX, became the
world leader of the revolutionary
proletariat and the oppressed CO.
lonial peoples precisely because in
him more than in anyone else was
found the complete fusion of revo-
lutionary theory and practice.
Stain, too, speaks about the fruit
lessness of activity without the sup
port of revolutionary theory, and of
the baroness of theory without re-
Volutionary experience.
Every worker can read The Eigh-
tenth Brumaire for the joy of
reading it, for the joy of seeing the
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