| Author(s) | Friedrich Engels |
|---|---|
| Written | 4 November 1868 |
ENGELS TO MARX
IN LONDON
Manchester, 4 November 1868
Dear Moor,
You must excuse me if I do not write much now. For some time I have had nasty rheumatism not only in my right arm, but also in the 3 first fingers of my right hand; as a result, after a certain time writing becomes very burdensome for me, and in the evening almost impossible. I hope the trouble disappears; I use alcohol against it—externally that is.
If the Spaniards even now do not know where they stand, following Wilhelmchen's address, they are beyond hope. Unity between bourgeois and worker—the bourgeois must, however, realise that he has to concede this and that to the worker—anything to avoid a June battle, for this is followed by 2 December. It is really the crowning point of all confusion. If now the bourgeois will not 'understand', the worker will have to realise that he will have to make concessions to the bourgeois. This is the sole possible sense which the thing can have. Hence, the ridiculousness of measuring Spanish conditions, with the enormous beggar-proletariat, both clerical and lay, against the yardstick of conditions in Saxony. There is naturally not a single mention of the peasants. Many greetings.
Your
F. E.
Moore tells me that nearly all factory workers in Vienna are Moravians and Bohemians, mainly Czechs. This explains much about the movement there. The real Viennese do not go into factories, they become coachmen, domestics or something like that.