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Letter to Victor Adler, December 27, 1894
| Author(s) | Friedrich Engels |
|---|---|
| Written | 27 December 1894 |
Printed according to the original collated with the newspaper
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50
ENGELS TO VICTOR ADLER
IN VIENNA [Draft]
[London, 27 December 1894]
Dear Victor,
I would ask you to convey my congratulations to the Austrian workers on their daily paper. Its first daily paper invariably signifies a tremendous step forward in the life of a party, especially of a workers' party. It is the first position from which it can tackle its opponents with the same weapons, at least in the field of the press. You have won this position; now the second is at stake: suffrage, parliament. And you are certain of this too, if you exploit the political situationâbecoming ever more favourable to you as it is with the same skill as [you have done] in the past fifteen months; if you are determined to act at the right time, but also, as so often necessary, determined to wait at the right time; if you know how to let circumstances act on your behalf.
Good luck and success to the daily Arbeiter-Zeitung!
Yours