Letter to Edouard Vaillant, October 22, 1871

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Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 22 October 1871


First published, in the language of the original (French), in International Review of Social History, Vol. XVII, Parts I-II, Assen, 1972
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44
Keywords : Letter, Edouard Vaillant


MARX TO EDOUARD VAILLANT

IN LONDON

[London,] 22 October 1871

Dear Mr Vaillant,

As I am having my pamphlet[1] printed next Monday, please make your corrections as soon as possible.

As to the resolution on political action,[2] the form initially produced by the Committee (Engels, [Martin],[3] Le Moussu) and the amendments subsequently adopted by vote of the General Council have created such an imbroglio that I have been compelled to alter the arrangement.

Yours ever,

Karl Marx

  1. ↑ K. Marx and F. Engels, 'Resolutions of the Conference of Delegates of the International Working Men's Association Assembled at London from 17th to 23rd September 1871'.
  2. ↑ At the sitting of the London Conference on 20 September 1871 Vaillant tabled a draft resolution stressing the need for political action by the working class. In the course of the discussion of this resolution and Serraillier's and Frankel's addenda to it Marx and Engels made speeches which provided the basis for the resolution 'Political Action of the Working Class' (IX). To draw up the resolution a special commission of the General Council was set up which included Engels, Martin and Le Moussu. The resolution was then discussed at the General Council's meeting of 16 October. Marx was asked to prepare it for the press.
  3. ↑ An illegible word here; Constant Martin was the third member of the Committee.
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