Marx first theorized politics’ specific field of ideology and coercion in Eighteenth Brumaire

Evidence

The Eighteenth Brumaire is the classic instance of such an analysis of the “effectivity” and specificity of the political instance in relation to the economic. “Here Marx began, for the first time, to develop a systematic set of concepts for coming to grips with the phenomena of a politics which is certainly that of class struggle—the struggle of groups and interests are defined by the relations of production—but which is nevertheless politics , practised in the field of ideology and coercion that gives it its specific character” (Fernbach). This is the direct result of a longer and more complex perspective, born in the failed denouement of 1848. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 507

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that 1848 failure forced Marx to abandon immediate-catastrophe perspective connects to later theories of consent and hegemony.