Letter to Paul Lafargue, November 22, 1887

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	22 November 1887

First published in Le Socialiste, No. 115, 24 November 1900
First published in English in: Frederick Engels, Paul and Laura Lafargue. Correspondence. 1887-1890, Vol. 2, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1960
Published in English in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 48

ENGELS TO PAUL LAFARGUE

IN PARIS

[Extract]

London, 22 November 1887

You will have read in the L... the speech made by V. in the... constituency of K. He complains, not without reason, that the Party is getting bourgeois.

It is a misfortune that overtakes all extreme parties as soon as the day for them to become 'possible' draws near. But ours cannot go beyond a certain limit in this respect without betraying its own cause, and it seems to me that in France as in Germany we have now reached that point. Luckily there is still time to call a halt.