London, June 9, 1893
122, Regent’s Park Road, N.W.

Dear Party Comrades,

I cordially thank you for sending me No. 2 of your Coyuans-
Aemoxpams and am endeavouring to show you by the superscription
of this letter that 1 am at least beginning to understand your
language. The requirements of internationalism are growing with
each year. Up to 1848 one believed one had done enough if one
had a smattering of the main languages of Western and Central
Europe, but now a point has been reached where I must in my old
age learn even Rumanian and Bulgarian if I want to follow the
progress of socialism eastward and south-eastward. However for
all that we in the West rejoice no less over these our south-eastern
vanguards on the Asian frontier, who are carrying as far as the
Black Sea and the Aegean Sea the banner of the modern
proletariat that Marx has unfurled—if only he had lived to see
this!}—and who answer the enticements and threats of Russian
tsarism by countering the tsarist proclamations with socialist works
written by the Russian champions of the proletariat. It has given
me great pleasure to see Plekhanov’s works translated into
Bulgarian.”

{ja *KHBbe HHTeEpHalHMOHaAAHHA COWWaAN3M»! *

Yours,
F. Engels