D.D.L., The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon… (<!-- year of translation not given -->)
“ Of all European nations, France is the one to which we come nearest. Besides its republican form of government—the directness of its history, the unity of its actions, the sharpness that marks its internal development, are all characteristics that find their parallel her best, and vice versa. ”
D.D.L., The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon… (<!-- year of translation not given -->)
“ What we still have from England, much as appearances may seem to point the other way, is not of our bone-and-marrow, so to speak, but rather partakes of the nature of "importations." We are no more English on account of them than we are Chinese because we all drink tea. ”
D.D.L., The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon… (<!-- year of translation not given -->)
“ In all essentials the study of modern French history, particularly when sketched by such a master hand as Marx', is the most valuable one for the acquisition of that historic, social and biologic insight that our country stands particularly in need of, and that will be inestimable during the approaching critical days. ”
