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Marx-Engels Correspondence 1874

Marx To Kugelmann

Abstract


Source: Marx Engels On Britain, Progress Publishers 1953;
Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.


London, May 18, 1874

In England at the moment only the rural labour movement shows any advance; the industrial workers have first of all to get rid of their present leaders. When I denounced these fellows at the Hague Congress I knew that I was letting myself in for unpopularity, calumny, etc., but such consequences have always been a matter of indifference to me. Here and there it is beginning to be realised that in making that denunciation I was only doing my duty.