Letter to H. Meyer, April 3, 1880

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 3 April 1880


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIX, Moscow, 1946
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46

Meyer, H.— member of the German Workers' Educational Society in London. (MECW)

TO H. MEYER IN LONDON

[London,] 3 April 1880
122 Regent's Park Road, N.W.

Mr H. Meyer,

Your favour of 25 March did not come into my hands until late at night on Saturday, 27 March, and hence, if only for that reason, I could not accept your invitation.

In view of the rifts and differences of opinion that have recently occurred among German Social-Democrats here and elsewhere, I am unable for the time being to declare myself in favour either of one party or of the other, especially as I cannot but reprobate, not only the policy of the Zurich Sozialdemokrat,[1] but also and no less that of the London Freiheit[2]

I would request you to be good enough to convey this to the executive, and meanwhile remain

Yours very truly,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ See present edition, Vol. 45, p. 349.
  2. ↑ See this volume, p. 7.