ABSTRACT
Karl Marx is considered, apart from being a theorist and a fighter, to have been an excellent observer of Zeitgeschehen, of his own age, rather like Tocqueville or Taine. Little is said on the larger dimension of works such as The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte or The Civil War in France. My aim here is not, of course, the exegesis of what is called, disparagingly, his journalism.
