Engels: Political action as a revolutionary act
(World News Austria)

Frederick Engels` `The Revolutionary Act: Military Insurrection or Political and Economic Action?,` his introduction to Marx`s Class Struggles in France: 1848 to 1850, is excerpted here. At the time the February [1848 French] revolution began, in so far as our conception of the conditions and the course of revolutionary movements are concerned, we were all subject to the prevailing historic experience, notably that of France. It was just the latter that had dominated the entire European history since 1789, and from whom now again had come the signal for a general transformation. And thus, inevitably and as a matter of course, were our conceptions of the nature and course of the `social`...