Letter to Karl Marx, April 20, 1868

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 20 April 1868


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43


ENGELS TO MARX

IN LONDON

Manchester, 20 April 1868

Dear Moor,

Enclosed two fivers to satisfy the schoolmasters. Just like the Geneva people to dawdle. It is a naive presumption too that, now that the STRIKE is over, the world should help the Genevans to pay the debts contracted during the STRIKE. I have never seen anything like that in this country. Here they only ask for support as long as the STRIKE lasts.

The Vienna paper[1] appears to contribute to a deliberate confusion created by the industrial interests, which is obviously grafted on to the spontaneous naive-helpless confusion. In the end, you always encounter a distinctly bourgeois tendency—accordingly, the paper no longer reports the workers' meetings, but instructs them. With best greetings.

Your

F. E.

  1. ↑ Presumably Neues Wiener Tagblatt