The First International Working Men's Association
NOTICE CONCERNING PRUSSIAN MILITARY QUESTION AND THE GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY
Written February 27 1865 Published March 3 1865 In the Berliner Reform, No. 53, the Düsseldorfer Zeitung, No. 62, the Rheinische Zeitung, No. 62,
Translated by Christopher Upward
A pamphlet by Frederick Engels entitled The Prussian Military Question and the German Workers' Party will shortly be published by Otto Meissner in Hamburg (price 6 Sgr.); unlike the most recent "socialdemocratic" party tactics [1], this pamphlet bases itself once more on the standpoint adopted by the literary representatives of the proletariat of 1846-1851 and develops this standpoint as against both reaction and the progressist bourgeoisie with regard to the currently topical question of the army and the budget.
Frederick Engels
NOTES
[1] In the text which Engels sent to Siebel on February 27. 1865, these tactics are described as follows:
"the pro-Bismarck direction adopted by the latest 'Social-Democracy' furthermore made it impossible for the people at the Neue Rheinische Zeitung to collaborate with the organs of this particular 'Social-Democracy'."
The wording of the notice in the Düsseldorfer Zeitung also contains this variant.
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