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Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Or, Germany in 1848
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664652683
Table of Contents
REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION
GERMANY AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE REVOLUTION.
THE FRANKFORT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
PANSLAVISM—THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN WAR.
THE PARIS RISING—THE FRANKFORT ASSEMBLY.
THE STORMING OF VIENNA—THE BETRAYAL OF VIENNA.
THE PRUSSIAN ASSEMBLY—THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
THE RESTORATION OF ORDER—DIET AND CHAMBER
THE ASSEMBLY AND THE GOVERNMENTS.
THE CLOSE OF THE INSURRECTION.
REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION
I.
GERMANY AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE REVOLUTION.
October 25, 1851.
The first act of the revolutionary drama on the continent of Europe has closed. The "powers that were" before the hurricane of 1848 are again the "powers that be," and the more or less popular rulers of a day, provisional governors, triumvirs, dictators, with their tail of representatives, civil commissioners, military commissioners, prefects, judges, generals, officers, and soldiers, are thrown upon foreign shores, and "transported beyond the seas" to England or America, there to form new governments in partibus infidelium, European committees, central committees, national committees, and to announce their advent with proclamations quite as solemn as those of any less imaginary potentates.
A more signal defeat than that undergone by the continental revolutionary party—or rather parties—upon all points of the line of battle, cannot be imagined. But what of that? Has not the struggle of the British middle classes for their social and political supremacy embraced forty-eight, that of the French middle classes forty years of unexampled struggles? And was their triumph ever nearer than at the very moment when restored monarchy thought itself more firmly settled than ever? The times