[Marxism] tracking down a marx quote

[Paddy Apling]

That quote from Marx:

I do not have the 1958 edition but the quote is at the beginning of "The 
Class Struggles in France", and I quote from the 1942 edition, published by 
Lawrence and Wishart, London, vol. II, p.192: [Prepared by the 
MARX-ENGELS-LENIN INSTITUTE, Moscow Under the Editorship of  V.ADORETSKY]

"I. From February to June 1948.

With the exception of a few short chapters, every important part of the 
annals of the revolution from 1848 to 1849 carried the heading: Defeat of 
the revolution!

But what succumbed in these feats 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 set free, from which it could be freed, not 
by the victory of February, but only by a series of defeats.

In a word: revolutionary advance made headway not by its immediate 
tragi-comic achievements, but on the contrary by the creation of a powerful, 
united counter-revolution, by the creation of an opponent, by fighting which 
the party of revolt first ripened into a real revolutionary party.

To prove this is the task of the following pages."

[The date of the publication is just to remind members of this list that I 
shall be 83 on 11th April - and have recently lost my darling wife of 63 
years, who died on 16th December last.  She gave me the 2-vol edition of 
Marx at Xmas 1943]

Paddy
http://apling.freeservers.com

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Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:51 PM
Subject: [Marxism] tracking down a marx quote


i am hoping someone can help me, i am trying to track down a Marx quote
but have had no luck finding it online, perhaps because the version i
have is not the same translation as has been put up on the MIA, or
perhaps because the version i have is inaccurate.

the quote in question is: "Revolution progresses by giving rise to a
strong and united counter-revolution, by creating an enemy that will
make the insurrectionary party a revolutionary one."

Lenin, in his "Lessons of the Moscow Uprising"
(http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1906/aug/29.htm#bkV11E078)
clearly paraphrases the quote in question, saying:

"The whole course of the Russian revolution after October, and the
sequence of events in Moscow in the December days, strikingly confirmed
one of Marx’s profound propositions: revolution progresses by giving
rise to a strong and united counter-revolution, i.e., it compels the
enemy to resort to more and more extreme measures of defence and in this
way devises ever more powerful means of attack."

The footnote on MIA says that Lenin is citing the proposition put
forward by Marx in his "Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1860", and
tells me to see Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. 1, Moscow, 1958,
p. 139.

Unfortunately, neither i nor the local library not google book have the
Moscow 1958 Selected Works of Marx and Engels...

so a plea to the Marx-list: if anyone has that book, or if anyone
recognizes the quote and can send me the original with a reference to
where it is from, i would be very grateful indeed!

thanx!

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