German Socialism and Ferdinand Lassalle

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: was, therefore, fortunate that a man was to be found who had been so schooled in the ideas of Marx that be could undertake the formidable task of editing the posthumous works. This is certainly not the least of Engels' achievements in the cause of Socialism. Engels underwent his baptism of fire as a...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: was, therefore, fortunate that a man was to be found who had been so schooled in the ideas of Marx that be could undertake the formidable task of editing the posthumous works. This is certainly not the least of Engels' achievements in the cause of Socialism. Engels underwent his baptism of fire as a political agitator at the time of the Elber- feld rising of 1849. For his share in causing this trouble he was ordered to leave Prussian territory, a fate which came to Marx a) well. Before this he had come into prominence through the publication, in 1845, f a volume on the condition of the English working classes, the result of nearly two years' study on the spot. In this work he advances the outspoken Socialistic opinions which have ever since been associated with his name. The work is dedicated to the working classes of Great Britain and Ireland, and in the dedication the author pays a high compliment to the British workman, not the least of whose good qualities are said to be sympathy with every progressive movement and freedom from that blasting curse, national prejudice and pride. I found you to be more than mere Englishmen, members of a single isolated nation, says Engels, I found you to be men, members of the great and universal family of mankind, who know their interests and those of all the human race to be the same. We here see the cosmopolitan sympathies shared by Engels in common with the Communist party, and they are further shown by his ceaseless endeavours on behalf of international co-operation amongst working-men. Besides associating with Marx in the establishment of a German Working-men's Association in Brussels in 1845, and in its later direction, Engels was joint-author of the Communist Manifesto, published early in 1848, and was one of the founders of t...