I would like to thank you most sincerely for the best wishes on 
my seventieth birthday conveyed in your letter of November 26. 

I realise only too well that by far the greater part of the honours 
shown me on this day by yourselves and so many others, only falls 
to me as the surviving representative of Marx, and beg your 
permission to be allowed to lay it on his grave as a wreath of 
honour. However, what I can do to show myself belatedly worthy 
of him I shall do; you may count on this. 

Many thanks for your kind invitation to the Hungarian Party 
Congress.'*' I shall sadly not be able to accept the invitation in 
person, but in spirit I shall be amongst you on the 7th and 8th 
inst. 

The existence of a Hungarian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party 
is a fresh proof that modern large-scale industry cannot install 
itself in any country without revolutionising the old pre-capitalist 
society, without creating not only a capitalist class but also a 
proletariat and thus producing the class struggle between the two 
and a workers’ party striving for the overthrow of the bourgeois- 
capitalist world order. This workers’ party, which is now develop- 
ing ever more strongly in Hungary too, as I learn from the 
Arbeiter-Wochen-Chronik you were kind enough to send me, has 
from the start the advantage of being international, of embracing 
Magyars, Germans, Romanians, Serbs and Slovaks. Please be kind 

enough to convey my warmest greetings to this young party upon 
its Congress. 

Long live international Social Democracy! 

Long live the Hungarian Party Congress! 

Frederick Engels 

Chronik, No. 50, December 14, 1890 and Wochen-Chronik 
in Népszava, No. 50, December 14, 1890 

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