Letter to Jules Guesde, April 14, 1893

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 14 April 1893


First published in A. Zévaès, De l'introduction du marxisme en France, Paris, 1947
Printed according to the book
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO JULES GUESDE

IN PARIS

[London], 14 April 1893

My dear Guesde,

I am sending you my short piece[1] for your May number.[2] Lafargue has told me that you are ill. I wish you a rapid and total recovery.

We indeed have need of you as our Roubaix deputy. This time we must succeed in getting a small, compact column into the Palais Bourbon which will establish once and for all, and without any possibility of misunderstanding, the nature of French socialism, so that all the disparate elements are obliged to rally around it.

Only then will the French socialists be able to recover throughout the world the standing that is theirs by right, and the important position that they must occupy in the general interest.

Yours sincerely,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ F. Engels
  2. ↑ Le Socialiste