The Arcades Project - Operi

Cuvillier presents Proudhon as a precursor of "national socialism" in the fascist
sense. [a19a,3J
""Proudhon believed. that one could aholish surplus value along with unearned
income, without transforming the organization of production . ... Proudhon conceived
this preposterous dream of socializing exchange within a context of nonsocialized
production. A. Cuvillier, ""Marx et Proudhon, A la fAtmiere du
marxisme, vol. 2, part 1 (Paris, 1937), p. 210. [a19a,4J
"'Value measured by labor . .. is . .. ,in Proudhon's eyes the very goal of progress.
For Marx, it is quite otherwise. The determination of value by labor is not
an ideal; it is a fact. It exists in our current soeiety. ' Armand CuviUier, "Mal'x et
Proudhon." A In Lwniere du l1wrxisme. vol. 2, part 1 (Paris, 1937), p. 208.
[a19a,5J
Proudhon spoke out extremely maliciously against Fourier, and he spoke no less
derogatorily of Cabet. This last provoked a reprimand from Marx, wha saw in
Cabet, by reasan af his political role in the warking class, a highly respectable
man. [a19a,6J
Blanqui's exelmnatioll, on entering the salon of Mlle. de Montgolfier on the evening
of July 29, 1830: " The Romantics are done f'or!":li [a19a,7]
Beboinning of the June Insurrection: "'On June 19, the dissolution of t.he national
workshops was announced as imminent.; a crowd gathered around the Hot.el de
Ville. On June 21, Le Moniteur announced that, the following day, workers aged
seventeen to twenty-five would he enlisted in the army or conducted to Sologne and
ot.her regions. It was thif'i laf'it expedient that most exasperated the Paris workers.
All these men who were used to doing detailed manual work in front of a workbench
and vise rejected the idea of going to t.ill t.he earth and lay out roads in a
marshland. One of t.he cries of the insurrection was: "We won It go! We won't go! m
Gustave Geffroy, L'Ellferme (Paris, 1926), vol .. 1, p. 193. [a20,lJ
Blanqui in Le Liberatem; March 1834: ""He demolishes, by a comparison, the
notorious commonplace, "The rich put the poor to work.' 'Approximately,' he
says 'as plantation owners put Negroes to work, with the difference that t.he
worker is not capital t.o he hushanded like the slave."" Gustave Geffroy, L 'En­
Je nne (Paris, 1926), vol. 1, p. 69. [a20,2J
Garnes theme of Apl'il 2, 1848: ""Estahlishment of a cordon snnitaire around the
dwellings of the rieh, who are destined to die of hunger." Gustave Geffroy, L'Enfenne
(Paris, 1926), vol. 1, p. 152. [a20,3J
Refrain of 1848: "Hat in hand when facing the cap, / Kneel down hefore the
worker!" [a20,4J