Letter to Friedrich Engels, September 12, 1867

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 12 September 1867


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 3, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 42


MARX TO ENGELS

IN MANCHESTER

[London,] 12 September 1867

DEAR FRED,

I am sending this 2nd letter, because Eccarius' LETTER has just arrived.[1]

Apropos. What Eccarius could not have known: L. Blanc has absented himself from the Geneva Congress,[2] because my people would be playing tricks there; Jules Favre, because the 'class question'[3] (as a SUPPORTER of Cavaignac in the June days,[4] his CONSCIENCE is, of course, not CLEAN) has been adopted by the Courrier français, along London lines.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ In his letter to Marx of 9 September 1867 Johann Georg Eccarius informed him that he as well as Johann Philipp Becker, Ludwig Kugelmann, Sigismund Borkheim and others had been invited on 8 September to a preliminary conference of the German participants in the Geneva Congress of the League of Peace and Freedom (see Note 461). This conference made obvious the disagreements between participants in the workers' movement and the bourgeois democrats. Thus, in the discussion of the candidates to the presiding body of the Congress, the democrats Ludwig Simon and Jakob Venedey opposed the very principle of class representation and objected to Kugelmann, who had suggested that representatives of the proletariat be included in it. Nevertheless, as a result of the debates, Marx's followers Eccarius, Becker and Borkheim and also Ludwig Büchner and Armand Goegg were elected German vice-presidents of the Congress.
  2. ↑ of the League of Peace and Freedom
  3. ↑ See this volume, p. 420.
  4. ↑ The June days—the proletarian uprising in Paris on 23-26 June 1848.