The German Workers Will Have a Freer Field Than Under Bonapartism

In the summer of 18 70, marksand engles had a rooting interest in napoleon. But they wanted working class activists and members of the international to hold off on immediately staging some kind of socialre lution in france. Backunen meanwhile, was positively giddy about the idea of a german invasion. He believed that he and his comrades could harness this aroused energy and advance it from mere national defence to mass social revolution.