The metaphor of the 'stage' in the political dynamics and the valuation of the parliamentary republic in the class struggle in France and in the eighteenth brumaire by Louis Bonaparte of Karl Marx

This article analyses, first, the consequences that has the employ of the metaphor of the “stage” to comprehend the political dynamic in The Class Struggles in France and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte of Marx. More specifically, it studies four questions: the entrance and the exit of actors, the reconfiguration of the stage caused by these movements and by the constitution of alliance blocks, the impact of the architecture of the stage, and the fight for signify the process and specific political events. Second, the article analyses the contradictory appraisals of the stage of a “parliamentary republic” that these texts have.