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Letter to the Editor of Le Corsaire
| Author(s) | Karl Marx |
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| Written | 12 September 1872 |
No. 66, September 21, 1872; II Popolino, No. 19, September 22, 1872
Printed according to Le Corsaire
Translated from the French
Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 23
The letter was published in English for the first time in Karl Marx, On the First International Arranged and edited, with an introduction and new translations by Saul K. Padover, New York, 1973, pp . 310-11.
Dear Sir,
The Figaro of September 11 reproduces a conversation which I am alleged to have had with the correspondent of the Soir.[1] The Figaro -type press can allow itself any calumny without anybody taking the trouble to point it out, but when the mercenary imagination of a correspondent goes so far as to put in my mouth grave accusations against my friends of the ex-General Council, I feel bound to say that he has violated all the rules of truth in daring to claim to have exchanged a single word with me.
I profit by this opportunity to let our friends and enemies know that I never dreamed of resigning from the International and that the transfer of the General Council to New York was proposed by me and several other members of the previous General Council.
It is false to report that Bakunin and his acolyte Guillaume were expelled as heads of a so-called federalist party. The expulsion of Bakunin and Guillaume was motivated by the creation within our Association of a secret society, the Alliance of Socialist Democracy, which claimed to direct the International to aims contrary to its principles.
The resolution of the London Conference on the political action of the working class was approved by the great majority of the Congress, and its insertion in the General Rules was voted.[2]
The working-class public of The Hague and Amsterdam were most sympathetic towards the Congress.
So much for the value of the reports in the reactionary press.
Yours sincerely,
Karl Marx
The Hague, September 12, 1872