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Letter to Friedrich Engels, April 8, 1869
| Author(s) | Karl Marx |
|---|---|
| Written | 8 April 1869 |
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43
MARX TO ENGELS
IN MANCHESTER
[London,] 8 April 1869
DEAR FRED,
I wrote to Wilhelmchen immediately today, as you suggested.[1] I added that it would be good if the price could be fixed, even at a minimum, above the cost, so that this surplus could be used to pay for INDIVIDUAL CARDS OF MEMBERSHIP (Id. each).
According to the Lausanne and Brussels decisions, representatives cannot be admitted to congress if their commettants[2] have not contributed to the national levy.[3]
The thing I liked best in Zukunft was the decision of the High Court of Justice on the freedom of assembly of the Prussian subjects.[4] This beats the French courts holo[5]? And this scurvy Kirchmann with his scurvy critics,[6] is fine and successful. This is the same Kirchmann who, a few years ago, proved the immortality of the soul.[7] His works, in any case, are not immortal.
The enclosed letter[8] shows the frame of mind of the workers in the Rhine province about the Barmen-Elberfeld Congress. Schweitzer had forgotten that Robespierre did not answer accusations only when he was sure of his cause, or when he could answer with the guillotine. But the CORRUPTIBLE should not take the INCORRUPTIBLE as their model.
Salut.
Your
K. M.
- ↑ The letter in question has not been found.
- ↑ mandataries
- ↑ 'Procès-verbaux du congrès de l'Association Internationale des Travailleurs réuni à Lausanne du 2 au 8 septembre 1867', p. 37. 'Troisième Congrès de l'Association Internationale des Travailleurs...' Supplément au journal Le Peuple belge, 24 septembre 1868.
- ↑ 'In Bezug auf das Vereins und Versam- mlungs-Gesetz ist vom Obertribunal folgender Rechtsgrundsatz angenommen worden...', Die Zukunft, No. 61, 13 March 1869.
- ↑ completely
- ↑ 'V. Kirchmann's Aesthetik', Die Zukunft, Nos. 71 and 72; 25 and 26 March 1869. (Anonymous review of J. H. v. Kirchmann's Aesthetik auf realistischer Grundlage, in two vols.)
- ↑ J. H. Kirchmann, Ueber die Unsterblichkeit. Ein philosophischer Versuch.
- ↑ A reference to Moll's letter to Marx of 6 April 1869, written on the instructions of the Solingen Section of the International. Moll wrote: 'The congress of the General Association of German Workers in Barmen-Elberfeld (see notes 311 and 318) has, as you know, largely destroyed Dr. Schweitzer's personality cult by blowing away the smoke-screen surrounding that power-hungry dictator; the congress advocated joining the International Association, as far as this is permitted by the existing laws. 'Bebel and Liebknecht vigorously championed the International's principles, made accusations against Schweitzer and other delegates and took them by the throat. Schweitzer did not try to defend himself, although he had intended to do so before the congress. The assured speeches of many, if not all delegates have made it clear that this Association has many viable elements; our section, like the International Association in general, will grow stronger, since the disunited workers' organisations will join the International.'