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Statement in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, November 17, 1848

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 16 November 1848


Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 8, p. 29;
First published: in Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 145, November 17, 1848;
Collection(s): Neue Rheinische Zeitung

Cologne, November 16. The Kölnische Zeitung in its issue of November 16 draws a wholly invented connection between the "Appeal of the Rhenish District Committee of Democrats" and an "Assurance" about the refusal to pay taxes[1] alleged to have been sent to the provinces by the extreme Left of the Prussian National Assembly. Nothing is known to the undersigned of a news report spread by members of the extreme Left concerning a refusal to pay taxes already decided on by the National Assembly.

Karl Marx
Schneider II

  1. ↑ This refers to the editors' introduction to the "Appeal of the Rhenish District Committee of Democrats" published in the Kölnische Zeitung No. 308 on November 16, 1848