Now in 1860, Europe’s industrial bourgeoisie were in turn breeding a viper in their nest, their workers. For without them, the machines wouldn’t run, the wheatfields wouldn’t be harvested, the cotton mills and coal mines would fall silent. When the proletariat realized their latent power (and the job of Marxist intellectuals is to make them aware of it), they will rise up in a revolt that will set the June Days in the quiet shade.
