The Success or Failure of the Revolutions of 1848 and Karl Marx

"Were the Revolutions of 1848 successful or unsuccessful? Discuss two examples."


The Revolutions of 1848 were filled with continuous failed revolutions. One of these revolutions was in France, and in France when they set out this time to reform their government. They actually ended up with an emperor named Louis Napoleon III (Napoleon's nephew).

The next revolution in 1848, that I'll talk about, is that of the Non-Austrian Germany. Many of the German states sought to have a new and better united Germany. Many of the states did send delegates, and they did draft a constitution for their new Germany. But the conflict between the grossdeutsch and the kleindeutsch made this difficult. Those in favor of grossdeutsch wanted a large Germany and those in favor of kleindeutsch wanted a small Germany. This basically meant that one group wanted to include Austria and the other did not. The king of Prussia was ultimately offered the crown for this new Germany, but he refused as he did not want to be limited by a constitution of (classical) liberalism. This, of course, lead to the delay of the unification of Germany.

The Revolutions of 1848 seem to have been ultimately unsuccessful. I hope that you have learned some good information from this portion of my essay!




"Why did Karl Marx think socialism was superior to capitalism?"


Karl Marx was in the line of thinking that took socialism and set it up as far above the way of capitalism. He thought that socialism encouraged creativity and imagination by allowing the seller to sell as he wished whereas capitalism forced the seller to tailor what he was selling to the market instead of what he wished to sell. Marx thought that capitalism was an incorrect way of the market and that it encouraged dog-eat-dog mentality, and he did not like the idea of private factory owners and the like. He thought that in socialism the people would all be cooperating and working together unlike how he thought it was in capitalism. He had an elevated view of socialism in comparison with capitalism to say the least.

I hope that these examples have been sufficient for you! Thanks for reading!