1848 Quote by Karl Marx

““... that with the defeat of the revolutionary workers, Europe finally fell back into its old double slavery, into Anglo-Russian slavery. The June struggle in Paris, the fall of Vienna, the tragicomedy of Berlin in November 1848, the desperate efforts of Poland, Italy, and Hungary, the starvation of Ireland—these were the main moments in which the European class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the working class came to a head, in which we proved that every revolutionary uprising, no matter how distant its goal may seem from the class struggle, must fail until the revolutionary working class wins, that every social reform remains a utopia until the proletarian revolution and the feudal counterrevolution clash in a world war. In our account, as in reality, Belgium and Switzerland were tragicomic caricatures in the great historical tableau, one a model state of bourgeois monarchy, the other a model state of bourgeois republic, both states imagining themselves to be as independent of the class struggle as they were of the European revolution.””

— Karl Marx