The socialist minority of the League of 
Peace and Freedom, having separated itself 
from the League as a result of the majority 
vote at the Berne Congress, the majority 
being formally opposed to the fundamental 
principle of all workers’ associations—that of 
economic and social equalisation of classes and 
individuals—has thereby adhered to the 
principles proclaimed by the workers’ con- 
gresses held in Geneva, Lausanne and Brussels. 
Several members of this minority, belonging 
to various nations, have suggested that we 
should form a new International Alliance of 
Socialist Democracy, merged entirely in the 
great International Working Men’s Association, 
but having a special mission to study political 
and philosophical questions on the basis of 
the grand principle of the universal and 
genuine equality of all human beings on 
earth. 

Convinced, for our part, of the useful- 
ness of such an enterprise that would 
provide sincere socialist democrats> of 
Europe and America with the means of 
being understood and of affirming their 
ideas, without any pressure from the false 
socialism which bourgeois democracy finds 
necessary to apply these days, we consider it 
our duty, together with our friends, to take 

[MARX’S REMARKS] 

equality of classes! 

merged in and established 
against! 

So, the socialist democrats 
are not understood through 
the International 

a Programme et Réglement de l’Alliance internationale de la Démocratie Socialiste, 

Geneva [1868].— Ed. 

6 The words in bold type were underlined by Marx.— Ed. 

the initiative in forming this new organisa- 
tion. 

Therefore, we have constituted ourselves 
as the central section of the International 
Alliance of Socialist Democracy, and we publish 
today its Programme and Rules. 

PROGRAMME