Note by the Editorial Board of Das Volk

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Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx
Written 29 July 1859


First published in Das Volk, No. 13, July 30, 1859
Printed according to the newspaper
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 16
Collection(s): Das Volk

In issue No. 12 of Das Volk (July 23, 1859) Biscamp, without notifying Marx, printed Georg Herwegh's arch-patriotic poem written on the occasion of the Federal Marksmen's Festival in Zurich. On July 30, 1859 Marx published an ironical editorial note (Das Volk, No. 13), which is given below. In connection with the publication of Herwegh's poem Engels wrote to Marx on July 25, 1859: "How, by the way, could you permit Herwegh's lousy poem to be included?" (see present edition, Vol. 40). In his reply to Engels Marx wrote on August 1, 1859: "Herwegh's rotten poem got in without my knowing about it. I therefore compelled Biscamp to give an explanation in the last issue and, into the bargain, I got him to publish the Landwehr soldier's song (as a fitting sequel to Herwegh)" (ibid.).

We only published the poem by G. Herwegh in our last issue[1] to show what can happen to the once-admired art of political-poetic declamation if it is brought low by Swiss republicanism. The relevant editorial comment was however omitted due to a mistake.

  1. ↑ Georg Herwegh's poem written on the occasion of the Federal Marksmen's Festival in Zurich, Das Volk, No. 12, July 23, 1859._ Ed.
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