[1] Marx, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in 1848.
[2] Marx, Revolution and Counter-Revolution, p. 70.
[3] Op. cit., pp. 123-124.
[4] Marx, Die Klassenkämpfe in Frankreich, pp. 26-28.
[5] See the third address issued by the International Workingmen's Association on the Franco-Prussian war, 1870-71.
The Italian Socialists in Milan, June, 1871, closed a rhetorical address to the Parisian Communards as follows: "To despotism they responded, We are free.
"To the cannon and chassepots of the leagued reactionists they offered their bared breasts.
"They fell, but fell like heroes.
"To-day the reaction calls them bandits, places them under the ban of the human race.
"Shall we permit it? No!