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The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men's Association. Report and Documents Published by Decision of the Hague Congress of the International
| Author(s) | First International Frederick Engels Karl Marx |
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| Written | September 1873 |
First published in Der Volksstaat, Nos. 105-107, October 31, November 2 and 5, 1873
Printed according to F. Engels, Internationales aus dem Volksstaat (1871-1875), Berlin, 1894, checked with the newspaper
Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 23
Marx and Engels wrote this work, with the assistance of Paul Lafargue, between April and July 1873, drawing on a large number of documents presented to the commission of inquiry into the activities of the secret Alliance, appointed by the Hague Congress. Among them was the material sent by Lafargue, JosĂŠ Mesa and others from Spain, J. Ph. Becker from Switzerland, N. F. Danielson and N. N. Lyubavin from Russia, and a large report written by N. I. Utin on the instructions of the London Conference of 1871. Some of the documents reached Marx and Engels only after the Hague Congress.
A number of preparatory materials are extant, including a list of documents used in the process of work. This list, drawn up by Engels, shows that the authors had at their disposal French translations of a few Russian editions sent in by Utin. That is why a number of Bakuninâs documents are quoted according to their French translation.
The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Menâs Association was published as a pamphlet in French in late August-early September 1873; in the summer of 1874 it came out in Brunswick in German (in S. Kokoskyâs translation) under the tide âEin Complot gegen die Internationale Arbeiter-Associationâ (A Conspiracy Against the International Working Menâs Association). Engels took a direct part in the editing of the German translation. In October 1873-January 1874, the Introduction and the first four chapters of this work were published in the New York Arbeiter-Zeitung. The work was published in English for the first time in The Hague Congress of the First International, September 2-7, 1872. Minutes and Documents, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1976.