The Middle Class Ideologies of Europe in the 18 Thirties and Forties

In 18 forty eight europe was mostly rural and agricultural. Agricultural and landed wealth was still the most powerful kind of wealth. The ruling class was nearly synonymous with the landowning class, almost synonymous with the aristocratic class. When the revolutions come, we will see the same union that we saw in 18 t up here,. again, of lower class street fighters, particularly the artisans, and middle class intellectuals combining their strength to break the repressive, conservative and aristocratic regimes they detested. That is what is coming.