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Balzac and Marx about Peasants
Cvetko Kostić
Sažetak
An analysis of Balzac's The
Peasants (1846, 1952) and Marx’s
The 18th Brumaire of Louis
Bonaparte (1852) shows that they
have much in common. In the first
place, the subject of both books
is the French village and peasants
at the beginning of the last century.
They show processes through
which the French village passed
after the revolution (1789) and
the different influences that were
at work in it at that time, the
great class conflicts in the village
and the resourcelessness of
peasants of different categories
in that struggle.
The article is divided into three
parts: Balzac's analysis of
conditions in the village, Marx’s
analysis of conditions in the village,
and finally, in the third part, a
study of the similarities and
differences of those two analyses.
That study shows not only many
points of similarity and identity,
but also that both authors used
very similar methods: the direct
study and analysis of historical
documents.
It is understandable that there
are differences in their work:
they stem from the different
nature of the books. Balzac's work
is of a literary, and Marx's of a
scholarly and ideaological nature;
Balzac was conservative and saw
no solution for the ardourous
conditions he depicted, and Marx
here also, like in other places, saw
a solution in class struggle whose
final goal would be the liberation
of the peasant from all the
hardship imposed upon him by
the capitalist system.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
119416
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Datum izdavanja:
11.6.1980.
Posjeta: 1.302 *