[Classics] The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850 Index [Classics] The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850 Introduction Introduction to the 1895 Edition 1. The Defeat of June, 1848 2. From June 1848 to June 13, 1849 3. Consequences of June 13, 1849 4. The Abolition of Universal Suffrage in 1850 All Pages Page 2 of 7IntroductionWhat succumbed in these defeats was not the revolution. It was the pre-revolutionary traditional appendages, results of social relationships which had not yet come to the point of sharp class antagonisms — persons, illusions, conceptions, projects from which the revolutionary party before the February Revolution was not free, from which it could be freed not by the victory of February, but only by a series of defeats.In a word: The revolution made progress, forged ahead, not by its immediate tragicomic achievements but, on the contrary, by the creation of a powerful, united counterrevolution, by the creation of an opponent in combat with whom the party of overthrow ripened into a really revolutionary party.To prove this is the task of the following pages. Prev Next