Le Napoléon de Marx

Le 18 Brumaire de Napoléon Bonaparte par Karl Marx (1852)

Some "idées napoleoniennes" (of Napoléon premier) highlighted by Marx in 18 Brumaire
1. Small holdings property
2. Strong and unlimited government
3. Strength and importance of the army- During Napoléon's reign, the army was the "flower of peasant youth". He writes, "The army was the point d'honneur of the small holding peasants, it was they themselves transformed into heros, defending their new posessions against the outer world, glorifying their recently won nationhood, plundering and revolutionizing the world" (130).