Letter to Karl Ludwig Bernays, August 1846

Author(s)	Karl Marx
Written	August 1846

Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 38 p. 60;
First published: in MEGA, Berlin, 1979;
From: Bernays' letter to Marx of August 1846.

To Bernays in Sarcelles

This letter has reached us in the form of an extract quoted in Bernays' reply to Marx of August 1846. Bernays touches on criticism of various alien trends, including 'true socialism', as an ideological prerequisite for the creation of a revolutionary party (see MEGA2, Abt. III, Bd. 2, S. 294).

Brussels, August 1846

Only when one previously critically combats these existing (for the sake of brevity let us say 'bad') tendencies, can one write a positive account of one's own with confidence.