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Speech by Friedrich Engels on the Occasion of the 92nd Birthday of Maximilien Robespierre

Excerpt from a Report on the Banquet of the Chartists of 5 April 1850

Die Hornisse.  
No. 89, 17 April 1850

[...] Mr Engels did justice to the revolutionary spirit of the English. He emphasised that at the time of the English Revolution a party of the levellers (friends of equality) had already existed, and concluded with a cheer for the English workers. [...]