First German edition. Originally published in French (with London and Hamburg imprint) the previous year, by order of the Hague Congress of September 1872 of the International Workingmen's Association. It was intended as a justification for the exclusion of the anarchist faction ‘Alliance de la démocratie socialiste' of Bakunin and Guillaume, that, according to Marx, wanted to take over the International. The Hague Congress marked the break of the First International between anarchism and Marxism within the workers' movement. It was written by Engels with the help of Paul Lafargue, with a concluding chapter written in cooperation with Marx, and has appended the text of the 'secret regulations of the Alliance', and some other documents. *Rubel 726. Répertoire international des sources pour l'étude des mouvements sociaux aux XIXe et XXe siècles. La Première Internationale II,48. Erstdrucke p.37. Draper ME6 and ST/ME 15. |
