Letter to Filippo Turati, January 30, 1893
| Author(s) | Friedrich Engels |
|---|---|
| Written | 30 January 1893 |
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50
ENGELS TO FILIPPO TURATI
IN MILAN
London, 30 January 1893
Dear citizen Turati,
You will have a few words of introduction tomorrow, if possible.[1]
However, I would ask you not to attach to the 1848 Manifesto the 1884 programme of the English Socialist League. 136 The Manifesto is a historic document, sui generis.[2] and if you attach to it a document dated forty years later, you will give the latter a special character. 108 Moreover, I cannot at the moment find the English original for comparison, because I have not seen it since it first appeared, and I know nothing about the programmes and other publications of the Socialist League, a society which has rapidly become anarchist, so that all those members who did not want to take part in this change of front (the Avelings, Bax, etc.) have withdrawn. As a result the League that has been dead for some time is now only referred to here as an anarchist society. You can imagine, therefore, to what quid pro quo a reprint of the original programme together with the 1848 Manifesto might lead.
Greetings to Mme Kulishov and yourself from Mme Kautsky and yours truly,
F. Engels