p. 3. in f. in France the class struggle... was carried to a decisive conclusion....

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p. 9. Creation of bourgeois society (and the corresponding situation in Europe) by the great French revolution.

p. 10..... "to conceal from themselves the bourgeois-limited content of their struggle"... (("fighters for bourgeois society" of the 18th century)).

p. 10. "In 1848–51 only the spectre of the old revolution wandered about."

p. 11. "The social revolution of the 19th century cannot draw its poetry from the past".... "must let the dead bury their dead."

p. 11. "the February revolution took the old society by surprise...

p. 12. "not society had won for itself a new content, but, apparently, the state had returned to the most ancient form...
On the unexpected attack (Feb. 48) — unexpected coup (Dec. 51).
The February revolution — "a shaking of the surface"... gave "lessons and experience", (NB) which... "in the correct, so to speak pedantic course of development"... (NB)
Bourgeois revolutions... rush from success to success... are short-lived.
Revolutions of the proletariat, (such as the revolution of the 19th century) criticise themselves constantly.

p. 13. "Weakness, as always, was saved by faith in miracles"...

p. 15: The proletariat proclaimed the republic a social republic... a hint at the general content of the modern (NB) revolution... in the strangest contradiction with what could be realised immediately
   why was the nation taken by surprise? p. 14
The proletariat indulged in the most serious debates on social questions.... the old forces found support in the mass of the people: peasants and petty bourgeoisie.

p. 16: The National Assembly (4 V 48 — V 49) was a living

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protest against the pretensions of the February days... was to reduce the results of the revolution to the bourgeois level.... contra: "social republic"!!!

** The February days originally had the aim of extending the circle of the politically privileged among the propertied classes (15)