Letter to Eugen Oswald, September 4, 1870

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 4 September 1870


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 33, Moscow, 1964
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


MARX TO EUGEN OSWALD

IN LONDON

London, 4 September 1870

In great haste

Dear Oswald,

I only arrived back in London[1] on Saturday, and had too much BUSINESS on hand to be able to accept your kind invitation.

If you are doing a 4th EDITION,[2] could you please put instead of Association Internationale Ouvrière', the official title current in France: Association Internationale des Travailleurs'. I was right about the EMPIRE ending in 'PARODY'.[3]

Yours,

K. M.

  1. ↑ 3 September
  2. ↑ In his letter of 18 July 1870, Eugen Oswald, a German refugee, asked Marx to sign an Address on the Franco-Prussian War drawn up by a group of French and German democratic refugees. The Address was published as a leaflet on 31 July 1870; the editions that followed were signed by Marx, Engels, Liebknecht, Bebel and other members of the International. Marx and his associates agreed to sign it on conditions outlined by Marx in his letter to Oswald of 3 August 1870 (see this volume, p. 34).
    Oswald enclosed with his letter an excerpt from Louis Blanc's letter in which he called for the Address on the Franco-Prussian War to be signed by as many people as possible.
  3. ↑ See K. Marx, 'First Address of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on the Franco-Prussian War'.