Eadweard’s Reviews > Europe Between Revolutions 1815 - 1848 > Status Update

While the liberals wanted legal participation in government and worked for the reform rather than the destruction of the monarchical state, the radicals, adopting a priori revolutionary attitude, supported the ideas of popular sovereignity, universal suffrage, a single chamber, and even a republic; they did not share the liberals' regard for dynasties and wanted a state which would be one and indivisible.

The bourgeois, in command of the economy and with power in his hands, built his fortune on the misery of the greater number. His contribution was to spread poverty.