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Thanks to all the Rhodes Scholars :) <3 Of course my primary citation motivation is what these quotes say about the many stages a proletarian revolution goes through over the course of years before success (as explained with reference to the MENA region by Gilbert Achcar). Another one: "With the exception of only a few chapters, every important part of the revolutionary annals from 1848 to 1849 bear the heading: *Defeat of the revolution!* "What 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." https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/class-struggles-france/index.htm And don't forget the entire "Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
