Note 671 — Chapter V · : PROUDHON AND THE SOCIALISM OF 1848

“How to resolve the bourgeoisie and the proletariat into the middle class, the class which lives upon its income and that which draws a salary into a class which has neither revenue nor wages, but lives by inventing and producing valuable commodities to exchange them for others. The middle class is the most active class in society, and is truly representative of a country’s activity. This was the problem in February 1848.” (Révolution démontrée par le Coup d’État, p. 135.)