(...] Of the speeches made at the anniversary celebration I shall 
only report some remarks by Karl Marx. Concerning the dispute 
about Self-help versus state-help he said that both parties were 
mistaken. In bourgeois society all the means of subsistence and of 
labour belong to the capitalists and therefore self-help is nonsense. 
On the other hand, it is obvious that under a Bismarckian 
government state assistance is out of the question.— The workers 
cannot sell themselves to the Bismarck government. State assis- 
tance can only proceed from a state in which the proletariat 
exercises supreme power. To preach the emancipation of labour 
within the Prussian monarchy would be to raise a storm in a 
teacup. The emancipation of labour implies the liberation of 
Germany and this in turn entails the restoration of Poland and 
the overthrow of the Prussian monarchy. Turning to the Progress 
Party’s! criticisms of the behaviour of the workers towards the 
bourgeoisie, Marx said that at the time when he had written that 
the workers must unite with the bourgeoisie against absolutism, it 
had been assumed that the German bourgeoisie would achieve at 
least as much as the English bourgeoisie had achieved in its time, 
but this had not happened in fact. In Germany, and particularly in 
Prussia, a press law was in force which freely permitted people 
high up in society to abuse and slander those beneath them. He 
added that the workers’ newspapers and the workers’ movement 
itself could only exist with police authorisation and that the 
government could only be attacked with kid gloves. In such 
conditions joint action by the workers and the bourgeoisie was 
impossible, particularly since the bourgeoisie was too cowardly to 
carry out its own programme.