Book Reviews and Notices : Karl Marx et la Revolution de 1848. BY AUGUSTE CORNU. In Collection du Centenaire de la Révolution de 1848. (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 1948. Pp. 75.)
| Published date | 01 September 1949 |
| Author | Oscar J. Hammen |
| Date | 01 September 1949 |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591294900200330 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
448
of
medievalism.
The
three
appendices,
(1)
a
list
of
the
aldermanic
families
of
London
in
1300
to
1500,
(2)
a
list
of
London
landowners
in
1436,
and
(3)
a
table
showing
the
geographical
origins
and
social
back-
ground
of
apprentices,
are
all
invaluable
and
are a
testimony
to
Miss
Thrupp’s
diligence
and
scholarship.
This
excellent
book
is
highly
recommended
for
political
scientists
who
teach
the
history
of
political
thought
and
who
are
wont
to
recon~
struct
medieval
political
practices
from
the
theoretical
information
to
be
found
in
the
few
extant
medieval
treatises
on
government
or
in
some
handbooks
on
medieval
institutions.
For
here
the
modern
teacher
will
find
that
practices
frequently
failed
to
conform
with
theory.
The
alleged
dominance
of
the
medieval
clergy,
the
vaunted
anti,sacerdotalism
of
the
bourgeoisie,
the
supposed
rigidity
of
hierarchism,
the
assumed
lack
of
in-
dividualism,
and
some
other
similarly
crusted
opinions
are
quietly
and
im-
plicitly,
but
effectively,
overturned;
and
much
that
is
customarily
attrib-
uted
to
the
fertility
and
the
challenge
of
the
Renaissance
is
revealed
to
be
at
work
amidst
the
merchant
class
of
medieval
London.
As
a
picture
takes
on
a
fuller
meaning
if
it
is
provided
with
an
ade-
quate
setting,
so
Miss
Thrupp’s
estimable
study
of
the
medieval
merchants
would
have
been
even
more
meaningful
if
she
had
treated
the
relations
between
the
merchants
and
the
laboring
class
as
fully
as
she
examined
the
relations
between
the
merchants
and
the
gentry.
University
of
Utah.
EMIL
LUCKI.
Karl
Marx
et
la
Revolution
de
1848.
BY
AUGUSTE
CORNU.
In
Collection
du
Centenaire
de la
Révolution
de
1848.
(Paris:
Presses
Universi-
taires
de
France.
1948.
Pp.
75.)
This
monograph
is
included
in
the
collection
of
centenary
studies
on
the
Revolution
of
1848
published
in
France.
The
work
shows
certain
defects
in
so
far
as
Cornu
depended
upon
a
limited
number
of
sources,
mostly
sympathetic
to
Marx
or
representative
of
the
Marxian
exposition
of
revolutionary
events
in
the
Germany
of
1848.
To
cite
an
example,
Cornu,
relying
on
F.
Mehring’s
biography
of
Marx,
speaks
of
the
latter
as
being
the
&dquo;soul&dquo;
of
a
certain
Democratic
Congress
in
the
Rhineland.
Cornu
quotes
Karl
Schurz,
via
Mehring
again,
to
the
effect
that
Marx
at
the
Congress
attracted
universal
attention
and
that
his
utterances
were
indeed
logical,
clear
and
profound.
But
Cornu
failed
to
add
that
Schurz
further-
more
stated
that
Marx’s
influence
in
the
Congress
was
small,
largely
because
the
arrogance
toward
and
contempt
of
Marx
for
all
who
dis-
agreed
with
him
repelled
the
other
factions.
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