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That was Karl Marx:

In a fun essay named The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, though apparently lifted by Marx from a letter to him by Engels:

So really it was Engels.

"First time is not first, second time is an inaccurate citation." Could we settle on this?

Isn't that more or less Stigler's Law of Eponymy?

That was someone else.

Maybe the first time. ;)