Language and Politics in Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Abstract

This article analyzes the place that Marx give to the language in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. More specifically, it tries to answer which position the language occupies in relation with the social classes and the political dynamic, which is Marx’s proposal about the revolutionary language, if it is possible to think an aideological or neutral language, if the revolutionary action can manage without epidictic resources or a heroism pathos, and, finally, which could be the role of the ambiguity associated with the rhetoric and with signifiers tendentially empty or imprecise.