The Arcades Project - Operi

I.I.While the parliamentary party oj Order ... destroy[ed] with its own hands, in
the struggle against the other classes of society, all the conditions for its own
regime, the parliamentary regime, the extraparliamentary mass oj the bourgeoisie,
on the other hand, . . . by its brutal maltreatment of its own press, invited
Bonaparte to suppress and annihilate its speaking and writing section, its politicians
and its literati, . .. in order that it might then be able to pursue its private
affairs with full confidence in the protection of a strong and unrestricted government."
Karl Marx, Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte, ed. Rjazanov
(Vienna and Berlin