Inaugural Address Of The International Workingmens Association

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266940258
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Two Speeches by Karl Marx written by Karl Marx and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Two Speeches by Karl Marx: Address to the Communist League, 1850, and the Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association; Delivered to the Public Meeting in St. Martin's Hall, Long Acre, London, on the 28th September, 1864, at Which the Association Was Founded On the other hand, the former rigid organization of the League has considerably loosened, a great number of members who directly partici pated in the revolution have come to the conclusion that the time for secret organization was passed, and that public propaganda alone would be sufficient. Various districts and communities lost contact 'with the Central Authority and 'have not resumed it. While the Democratic Party, the party of the petty bourgeoisie, enlarged and strengthened their organization, the working-class Party lost its cohesion, or formed local organizations for local purposes, and therefore was dragged into the democratic movement and so came under the sway of the petty bourgeoisie. This state of things must be put an end to; the independence of the working class must be restored. The Central' Authority, as far back as the winter of 1848-49, saw the necessity for reorganization and sent the missionary, Joseph Moll, * but this mission has no lasting result. After the defeat of the revolutionary movement in Germany and France in June, 1849, nearly all the members of the Central Authority reunited in London, supplemented by new revolutionary forces, and took the work of the reorganization seriously in hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.