Marx and Engels in Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 6 June 1848

The Reaction


Source: MECW Volume 7, p. 45;
Written: on June 5, 1848;
First published: in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 6, June 6, 1848.


Cologne, June 5. The dead ride fast. [Gottfried Bürger, “Lenore"] Herr Camphausen disavows the revolution and the reaction dares to suggest to the Agreement Assembly that the revolution should be stigmatised as a riot. On June 3, a deputy [Karl Richter] moved that a monument be erected for the soldiers who died on March 18.