Franco-Prussian War: France Vs. Prussia (German) Victor: Germany (19 juill. 1870 – 28 janv. 1871)

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Date 19 July 1870 – 28 January 1871
(6 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location
France and Prussia
Result

German victory

Treaty of Frankfurt
Fall of the Second French Empire
Formation of the French Third Republic
Beginning of Franco-German enmity
Paris Commune Uprising

Territorial
changes
Unification of Germany completed
Proclamation of the German Empire
German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine

Marx believed that a German victory would help his long-term desire for a socialist revolution. He pointed out to Friedrich Engels that German workers were better organised and better disciplined than French workers who were greatly influenced by the ideas of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: "The French need a drubbing. If the Prussians are victorious then the centralisation of the State power will give help to the centralisation of the working class... The superiority of the Germans over the French in the world arena would mean at the same time the superiority of our theory over Proudhon's and so on."

Marx thought the war would provide the opportunity for revolution. He told Engels: "I have been totally unable to sleep for four nights now, on account of the rheumatism and I spend this time in fantasies about Paris, etc." He hoped for a German victory: "I wish this because the definite defeat of Bonaparte is likely to provoke Revolution in France, while the definite defeat of Germany would only protract the present state of things for twenty-years."

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