Quiz: The Class Struggles in France, 1848–1850

10 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. 1. How does Marx describe doctrinaire (utopian) socialism?

   It is identical with revolutionary communism, differing from it only in its plans for organising production It is the socialism of the peasants, who dream of restoring small property free of mortgage debt It puts pedants’ reasoning in place of collective production and wishes away class struggle It is the most scientific form of socialism, deriving the new society from the laws of political economy
2. 2. Which foreign expedition does Part II describe?

   The intervention in Mexico against the republic The Crimean campaign The invasion of Algeria The French army’s attack on the Roman Republic
3. 3. Who dictated the decree promising to secure workers’ livelihood through labour?

   Louis Blanc, the socialist Marche, a workingman Lamartine Ledru-Rollin
4. 4. Which law of 6 September 1850 does Part IV mention?

   The resumption of cash payments by the Bank of France The abolition of the Senate Free trade with England and lower duties on iron The emancipation of slaves
5. 5. From whom was the Mobile Guard mostly recruited?

   The peasantry The National Guard of the wealthier Paris districts The Lumpenproletariat, youths between 15 and 20 The regular army’s veteran regiments of the line
6. 6. How does Engels describe the June fighting of 1848 in Paris?

   A rising of peasants and artisans against the new forty-five centime tax A royalist plot to overthrow the Republic, disguised as a workers’ revolt The first great battle for dominance between proletariat and bourgeoisie A minor riot of unemployed workers, easily put down by the National Guard
7. 7. Who made this first English translation (1924)?

   Daniel De Leon Ernest Untermann Henry Kuhn Samuel Moore
8. 8. What changed the situation in France in 1849–50, according to Part IV?

   A war scare: Prussia mobilised its armies on the Rhine and the Assembly voted new levies of troops A new commercial prosperity: Paris industries fully employed, the mills of Rouen and Mulhouse active A new famine: crop failures in the provinces, high bread prices and bread riots in Paris and Lyons A financial crash: the Bank of France suspended its payments and credit dried up in every trade
9. 9. How does Marx define revolutionary socialism (communism) at the end of Part III?

   The founding of model communities on a rational plan, whose example would in time win over every class to the new society The organisation of labour through state-funded cooperatives, as a means of gradually reconciling capital and wage labour The peaceful conquest of a parliamentary majority, as a means of gradually transforming bourgeois property into common property The revolution declared in permanency, and the class dictatorship of the proletariat as a transition to the abolition of classes
10. 10. What does Engels say the parties of order cry out in despair, with Odilon Barrot?

    “La légalité nous tue”: legality is our death “Après nous le déluge” “Vive la République” “L’État, c’est moi”