Letter to Eduard Bernstein, October 20, 1890

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 20 October 1890


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 37, Moscow, 1965
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 49


ENGELS TO EDUARD BERNSTEIN0

IN LONDON

[London,] 20 October [1890]

Tussy arrived home yesterday morning. Adler[1] had told her that Louise Kautsky had come back from Berchtesgaden in the best of spirits, was looking 10 years younger and proving a tremendous success. Tussy was very full of the congress 12; the masses, she said, were first-rate but the parliamentary group for the most part still philistine — Bebel had been greatly alarmed upon hearing of the electoral victories of certain of their number and had at once written to say that, while the damage had already been done, it must not be allowed to happen again. Provided this gang follows Bebel's lead, things will still be all right.

Your

F.E.

I am sending what remains of the reports, amongst them a Hamburg paper, as I don't know whether you have already got the Berlin report about the 14th of October.

  • philistine tinge- P. Lafargue, 'Karl Marx. Persönliche Erinnerungen', Die Neue Zeit, 9. Jg. 1890/91, 1. Bd., Nr. 1-2.-' This letter is a postscript to Eleanor Marx-Aveling's letter to Engels of 16 October 1890 from Halle, which he sent to Bernstein.-
  1. ↑ Victor Adler