The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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... They had given out the watchwords of the old society, “property, family, religion, order,” to their army as passwords and had proclaimed to the counterrevolutionary crusaders: “In this sign thou shalt conquer!” From that moment, as soon as one of the numerous parties which gathered under this sign .. seeks to hold the revolutionary battlefield in its own class interest, it goes down before the cry: “property, family, religion, order.” Society is saved just as often as the circle of its rulers contracts, as a more exclusive interest is maintained against a wider one. Every demand of the simplest bourgeois financial reform, of the most ordinary liberalism, of the most formal republicanism, of the most shallow democracy, is .. stigmatized as “socialism.” And finally the high priests of “religion and order” themselves are .. hauled out of their beds in the darkness of night, put in prison vans, thrown into dungeons or sent into exile ... their mouths are sealed, their pens broken, their law torn to pieces in the name of religion, of property, of the family, of order. Bourgeois fanatics for order are shot down on their balconies by mobs of drunken soldiers, their domestic sanctuaries profaned, their houses bombarded for amusement – in the name of property, of the family, of religion, and of order. Finally, the scum of bourgeois society .. installs himself .. as the “savior of society.”

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm

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