# 22. XI. 1887:
Source: PSS vol 33

“You have probably read in L... the speech delivered by N. in the K. electoral district. He rightly complains that the party is becoming bourgeois. This is the misfortune of all extreme parties when the moment approaches at which they become ‘viable.’ But our party cannot, without betraying itself, exceed a certain limit in this regard—and I believe that in France, as well as in Germany, we have already reached that threshold. Fortunately, it is still not too late to turn back” (emphasis added by Engels) (p. 426)
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“In general, social reforms can never be brought about through the weakness of the strong; they must and will be initiated by the strength of the weak.” [Marx, 1848?—before 1848~|