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Marx on Proudhon: i.'The February Revolution certainly came at a very inconvenient
moment for Proudhon, who had irrefutably proved only a few weeks before
that the 'era of revolutions l was ended forever. His speech to the National Assembly,
however little insight it showed into existing conditions, was worthy of every
praise. Coming after the June Insurrection, it was an act of great courage. In
addition, it had the fortunate consequence that Thiers-by his reply (which was
then issued as a special booklet), in which he opposed Proudhon's proposalsproved
to the whole of Europe what an infant.ile catechism formed the pedestal for
this intellect.ual pillar of the French bourgeoisie. Compared with Thiel's, Proudhon's
stature indeed seemed that of an antediluvian colossus . ... His attacks on
religion, the church, and so on were of great merit locally at a time when the
French socialists thought it desirable to showl by their religiosity, how superior
they were to the bourgeois Voltaireanism of the eighteenth century and the German
godlessness of the nineteenth. Just as Peter the Great defeated Russian harbarism
by barbarity, Proudhon did his best to defeat French phrase-mongering by
phrases." Marx to Schweitzer, London, January 24, 1865, in Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels, Ausgewahlte Brie/e , ed. V. Adoratski (Moscow and Leningrad,
1934), pp. 143-144.'" [a18,2]
"You'll he amused by the following: Journal des economistes, August of this year,
eontains, in an article on . .. communism, the following: i . M. Marx is a cobbler, as
another German communist, Weitling, is a tailor . ... Neither does M. Marx proceed
beyond . .. abstract formulas, and he takes the greatest care to avoid hroaching
any truly practical question. According to him [note the nonsense], the
emancipation of the German people will he the signal for the emancipation of the
human race; philosophy would be the head of this emancipation, the proletariat its
heart. When all has been prepared, the Gallie cock will herald the Teutonic resurrection
. ... Marx says that a universal proletariat must be created in Germany
[!l] in order for the philosophical concept of eommullislll to he realized. '" Engels
to Marx, ca. September 16, 1846, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,
vol. 1, 1844-1853, ed. Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute (Moscow, Leningrad,
1935), pp. 45-46.'" [a18,3]
"It is a necessary result. of every victorious reaction that. t.he causes of the revolution
and especially of the counterrevolution should pass int.o uUer ohlivion."
Engels to Marx, Manchester, December 18, 1868l apropos of Eugene Tt'mot's
books on the coup d'et.at. of 1851; in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,Ausgewiihlte
Briefe , ed. V. Adoratski (Moscow and Leningrad, 1934), p. 209.'" [a18,4]
On nat.ional holidays, certain ohjects could he redeemed
shops.
gratis from the pawn
[a18a,1]
Laffitte calls himself '"a citizen with possessions." Cited in Al)cl Bonnard, Jes
Mocieres, in series entitled Le Drame du present, vol. 1, (Paris