The International Workingmen's Association

Notice concerning The Prussian Military Question and the German Workers' Party


A pamphlet by Frederick Engels entitled
The Prussian Military Question and the German Workers' Party will
shortly be published by Otto Meissner in Hamburg (price 6 Sgr.); unlike
the most recent "socialdemocratic" party tactics [1],
this pamphlet bases itself once more on the standpoint adopted by the literary
representatives of the proletariat of 18461851 and develops this standpoint
as against both reaction and the progressist bourgeoisie with regard to
the currently topical question of the army and the budget.

Frederick Engels

Notes

1 In the text which Engels sent to Siebel on
February 27. 1865, these tactics are described as follows:

"the pro-Bismarck direction adopted by the latest 'Social-Democracy'
furthermore made it impossible for the people at the Neue Rheinische
Zeitung to collaborate with the organs of this particular 'Social-Democracy'."

The wording of the notice in the Düsseldorfer Zeitung also
contains this variant.