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round its neck, and with it will vanish all the misery and degradation, all the carnage, the slaughter of the innocents, which takes place daily in slum and factory, and periodically on the bloody fields of battle. Then we shall be relieved of the shame of prostituting science to the gods of Mammon and War, and shall at last allow the beauties and wonders of Nature, the wonderful achievements of science, literature and art to be the common and inelienable heritage of every human being.
THE INSURRECTIONS OF 1848.
On February 22nd, 1848, a few weeks after the publication of the "Communist Manifesto," revolution again broke out in Paris, and amongst other places disturbances occurred in Brussels and, although previously the Belgium Government had refused to expel Marx at the bidding of the Prussian Government, it did so now. He went to Paris, took part in the movement there for a short time, and then went back to Germany, where the revolution was calling him. He went to Cologne and there started the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Engels, who took a very active part in the paper, says: "It was the only paper in the democratic movement of the time defending the standpoint of the proletariat." Whilst advocating energetic and decisive action against the old order and its representatives, it nevertheless showed clearly that the destruction of the reactionary Government was but the beginning, not the end of the revolutionary struggle—that it would but pave the way for the real class struggle between the proletariat and bourgeoisie. It frankly supported the Paris July insurgents of 1848, although "it thus estranged nearly all its stockholders."
After repeated attempts, the Prussian Government at last felt itself strong enough to suppress the paper (May 19th, 1848), nearly a year after its appearance, and Marx was once more exiled. He went to Paris with a mandate from the Democratic revolutionary Central Committee, an insurrection being planned by the Democratic Party both for France and Germany. But this insurrection, which was chiefly the work of the radical middle-class, and took place June 13th, 1849, failed. Marx had to leave
