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tionary communists-from the public stage for the entire duration of the cycle."
Marx, Der achtzehnte Brwnaire, ed. Rjazanov, p. 28. ,
106 [J73,3]
America's spirit world enters into the description of the crowd in Poe. Marx
speaks of the republic which in Europe "signifies, in general, only the political
form of revolution of bourgeois society and not its conservative form of life-as,
for example, in the United States of North America, where . .. classes ... have
not yet become fixed, ... where the modern means of production ... compen­
sate for the relative deficiency of heads and hands, and where, finally, the fever­
ish, youthful movement of material production .. . has left neither time nor
opportunity for abolishing the old spirit world:' Marx, Der achtzehnte Brunzaire,
p. 30.4111 It is remarkable that Marx invokes the world of spirits to help explain the
American republic. [J73,4]
If the crowd is a veil, then the journalist draws it about him, exploiting his
numerous connections like so many seductive arrangements of the cloth.
[J73,5]
The revolutionary by-elections of March 10, 1850, sent to the parliament in Paris
an exclusively social-democratic mandate. But these elections would find "a sentimental
commentary in the April by-election, the election of Eugene Sue.?? Marx,
Der achtzehnte B,.umai,.e, p. 68. '!OU
[J73,6]
Apropos of"Le Crepuscule du matin." Marx sees in Napoleon III '"a man who does
not decide by night in order to execute by day, but who decides by day and executes
by night." Marx, Der achtzehnte B,.umaire, ed. Rjazanov, p. 79.'109 [J73a,1]
Apropos of ""Le Crepuscule du matin": "Paris is full of rumors of a coup d'etat.
The capital is to be filled with troops during the night; the next morning is to bring
decrees." Quoted from the European dHily press of September and October 185l.
Marx, De,. achtzehnte Brumai,.e, p. 105.410 [J73a,2]
Marx calls the leaders of the Paris proletariat the barricade commanders." De,.
achtzehnte Bnunaire, p. 113. ,11 [J73a,3]
Sainte-Beuve's relnark about Lamartine, whose poems represented the sky over
Andre Chenier's landscapes (J51a,3) , should be compared with the words of
Marx: "While, in its accord with society, in its dependence on natural forces and
its submission to the authority which protected it from above, the small holding
that had newly come into being was naturally religious, the small holding that is
ruined by debts, at odds with society and authority, and driven beyond its own
limitations naturally becomes irreligious. I-Ieaven was quite a pleasing accession
to the narrow strip of land just won, more particularly as it makes the weather; it
becomes an insult as soon as it is thrust forward as substitute for the small
holding:' Marx, Der achtzehnte Brunzaire, p. 122:'" Sainte-Beuve's analogy, com-