Excerpt from The Revolution in Germany: A Study Including Separate Essays Entitled, That Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and the Socialism and the Constituent Assembly in Germany
When the last of crowns like glass shall break
On the scene our sorrows have haunted,
And the People the last dread "guilty" shall speak,
On your side ye shall find me undaunted,
On Rhine, or on Danube, in word and deed,
Ye shall witness, true to his vow,
On the wrecks of thrones, in the midst of the freed,
The rebel who greets you now!
(From the "Farewell of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung"," May 19th, 1849, by Ferdinand Freiligrath.)
Upon this writing the Republic or at least a constitutional form of government seems assured in Germany. As the various social layers become more thoroughly permeated with the principles and immediate effects of this to the average German so gigantic and momentous upheaval, the possibilities of a successful counter-revolution become evermore remote. Also as the shadow of the Allies" armies, the democratic minions, on the border or within the fatherland becomes more distinct and grows bolder, the harassing menace of a monarchic coup d"etat slowly diminishes and gradually disappears. Without exaggeration, it seems that the feudal barnacles, which have for centuries so tenaciously clung to the German body politic, and which finally served so ably as submissive, pliable agents of an aggressive Imperialism, aiming to establish an international oligarchy, have at last been amputated by the recently inaugurated revolution culminating out of the economic ruins produced by nigh five years of wanton destruction and unproductive consumption. Therefore, the so belated political Renaissance now embracing take native land of Goethe, Kant, Wagner and Marx, a Renaissance whose first manifestations in 1848-49 were so brutally stifled with the aid of the Russian soldiery, can at least be considered one of the few substantial products whose completion was tremendously hastened and whipped on by this unparallelled holocaust.
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