The Class Struggles in France

Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850 is a work by Karl Marx in which the most important tenets of historical materialism, the theory and tactics of the proletariat's class struggle, are developed on the basis of an examination of the Revolution of 1848 in France. It was written by Marx from January to March 1850 and published as three articles in the first three issues of the journal Neue Rheinische Zeitung: Politischokonomische Revue (1850) under the title "From 1848 to 1849." Reissuing Marx' work in 1895, F. Engels entitled it "The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850," wrote an introduction, and included a supplementary, fourth chapter. Incorporated into the fourth chapter were sections of Marx' and Engels' third review of the international situation, written in November 1849 and placed in the fourth and fifth issues of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, which were devoted to the events in France.