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tion. The enemy of the workers had brought into clear relief the international
significance of the Lyons symptom. Neither the republican nor the legitimist press,
however, wished to present the question in such dangerous terms . ... The legitimists
. .. protested for purely demagogic reasons, since at that moment it was the
intention of this party to play the working class off against the Hberal bourgeoisie
in the interests of reestablishing the elder line of Bourbons; the republicans, on the
other hand, had an interest in playing down, as far as possible, the purely proletarian
cast of the movement . .. in order ... not to lose the working class as a
future ally in the struggle against the July monarchy. Nevertheless, the immediate
impression produced by the Lyons uprising was so wholly incommensurable, so
painful for contemporaries, that for this renson alone it has already attained a
spedal place in history. The generation which had witnessed the July Revolution
. . . was thought, in effect, to have nerves of steel. Yet they saw in the Lyons
insurrection something entirely new . .. , which alarmed them an the more insofar
as the workers of Lyons themselves seemed manifestly not to see or understand this
new dimension." E. Tarle, I . Der Lyoner Arbeiteraufstand," in Marx-Engels Archiv,
ed. D. Rjazanov, vol. 2 (Frankfurt am Main, 1928), p. 102. [a6a,lJ
Tarle cites a passage from Borne on the Lyons insurrection, in which this writer
vents his indignation over Casimir PerLeI' because, as Tarle writes, ( . perier rejoices
at the lack of political motive for the uprising in Lyons, satisfied that this is
only a war of the poor against the rich." The passage-in Ludwig Borne, Gesammelte
Scltrften (Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main, 1862), vol. 10, p. 20-runs:
'"It is said to be nothing more than a war of the poor against the rich, of those who
have nothing to lose against those who own something! And this terrible truth
which, hecause it is a truth, ought to have heen buried in the deepest of wells, the
lunatic raises aloft and flaunts before all the world!" In E. Tarle, "Del' Lyoner
Arbeiteraufstand," in Marx-Engels Archiv, vol. 2 (Frankfurt am Main, 1928),
p. 112. [a6a,2J
Buret was a student of Sismondi. Charles Andler credits him with an influence on
Marx (Andler Le Manfeste commltniste [Paris, 1901 ])-something which Mehring
CI.Ein methodologisches Problem," Die nelte Zeit [Stuttgart], 20, no. 1,
pp. 450-451) firmly denies. [a6a,3]
Influence of Romanticism on political phraseology, explaining an attack on the
congregations. "We are at the heginning of Romanticism, and we clearly recognize
it by the manner in which it dramatizes everything. A cross was set up atop Mount
Va1erien: this cross ... is denounced as symbolizing the ascendancy of religious
society over civil society. The Jesuit novitiate refers to itself only as 't.he den of
Montrouge.' A jubilee is announced for 1826, and already men of the cloth are
thought to be looming on all sides." Pierre de la Gorce, La Restauration (Paris