--- On Sat, 10/3/09, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Where?
>
> Don't get me wrong, Marx took elections very seriously,
> esp. in France; his 3 books of analyses of them are genius,
> esp. the Brumaire.
>
> But I think he made it extremely clear that the ruling
> class will never allow themselves to be summarily
> expropriated without fighting back militarily. And I
> think he's right.
>
I can't give you a source, but I have the firm recollection of reading somewhere that the reform laws passed in England in the 1800s (that he mentions in Capital) caused him to say that England might be an exception. My memory could be faulty.