New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-05

the one side, will no doubt the other also. You vii
reply and reiute us if you can.
For myself in our two years connexion, have
often said Il am no Communist" | now repeal
this. and add hold the absolute theories of Com
munism to be as despotcally hostile to freedom a.
old Absolutisn. ] belong not TO those " no would
exchange one slavery for another by making men
machines now who were serfs before. ! want wha'
the new humanitarian school wants harmonious
Improvement Of the human race by means OF har
mopious culture material comfort and satisfaction o.
the common natural instincts for all ouigrowins the
old formula restraints named Church and State, and
organization of a new society truly natural and hu
man in iis principles and practice whose object
shall be 10 let man live for himself and for others as
becomes a human being. A society must exist
whose members in general committee shall have
a care that there should more be neglected, ex
cudcd Parias or Helots tina, through equality il
education the gulf be filed up between the accom-
plished and ignorant through just division OF Ia
Dor that between the industrious and the Idle
through equal distribution Of the producisoi art and
nature that between rich and poor, between men
always satiated and men always hungry A society
equal political rights, which anniha,cs summarily
the crimes and sorrows that spring from vast dis
PARTIES of condition. whose highest object is the
earthly welfare of all men, leaving hereafter to the
care Of its own time This is my confession OF
falkland now enough Of me, and a word upon the
new Social school. 1t is imagined-governrnens
especially stiiily Of that opinion-ihat the
new social movement is the work OF a school,
party an intellectual conspiracy of dissatisfied wri
tiers. 1t is not so never was there any thing that
less deserved the name Of party than the Social
school Unconnectcd, scarcely known TO one ano-
ther without funds in money, without Official sup
port viewed with hostile eye by political parties.
prosecuted by governments, still it, members work
miracles, and throw all Europe into conmoon
through power of the Idea which they repre-
sent ] have already said how the new Social ten
dency is developed, in various ways by two classes
standing at a great distance from one another, l.
bv the philosophers and the laborers The philoso
piers are much isolated their books written in the
Hegelean styles if once in while they penetrate
through the pressure 81 censorship into the free air
are only accessible to small public. then are they
ex lied and hunted about like Marx, Ruge Bernays
or shut up like Bauer and, worst OF all they 80 re
spec, the critics trade to be endlessly and un
snaripgly critics to one another instead OF Try ing TO
ion hands Marx has in his Holy Family over
whelmed Bauer in Berlin, Ruge has fallen upon
Marx Bernavs stands Independent of all. the Swiss
socialists thunder against the German socialists of Pa
ris-on every side are assaults and quarrcls Where
then is the Party But it is out of such combats
no ba,t -4ald he cd
with slain. but the survivors will be crowned with
victory. Then Judge us not as Communists who
are really party with its Propagandal nor esteem
us slavish disciples of any school the banner bear
crs of a party view which seeks for its field OF
vision boundless human freedom, cannot submit t.
be enslaved to a system. What we say and shall sa,
here are the opinions Of individuals II others syn
natbise with us so much the better And having
no propaganda speaking our thoughts because they
are our thoughts out OF deep conviction If they con-
vince others that is their aiiairwe are not respon
sble. Let each one speak for hlmseli-none for all
| should be as unfit to represent Weitling as Welt
ling 10 take upon himself the critical atheism o.
Marx. Try all things and hold fast the good, re
mains my motto
As to politics, matters are pretty tranquil now.
uu, so much the more do men busy themselves with
social questions and trying experiments in practical
life The governments are deaf and blind but the CRY
of discomfort is always breaking forth here and
there from ensaved millions, through the thick vel
thrown over their griefs. cares wants and wishes.
their joylcss lives and painful uncontrolled deaths
that such sights may no, disturb the enioymcnts OF
those possessed of wealth and power Proletarian
ism is there it exists; the 6ourgeoisie cannot get
out of its way is annoyed and tries just such means
as in 1893 the nobility and high clergy tried against
the clamorous third estate. Would you see in fol
the relation Of the proleiary TO the wellendowed
citizen read the book of our excellent friend EDgels
On the Situation of the Laboring Glass in Eng
| land" What is said there of England applies no
! less 10 Germany and France. England was, as En-
| gels shows historically no worse oil formerly than
Germany nay. not so i'll, for in many regions OF Ger
many forty years suffice 10 increase the numbers OF
proletaries by hundred thousands, nay by millions
England has only fastened before u.s. as if to show
IN what state we must arrive if We keep in the
same way as at present
Encels divides the laboring class of England into
three parts the manufacturing agricultural and min
| ing laborcrs The state of the first he examines
fully, and gives us clear picture or IL lie taxes
us through the great and little quarters of London
Manchester, Liverpool, &c, and shows us misery
that makes US blush TO belong to the world in which
it can happen, misery which amazes or greves us
At the power of endurance in human nature with an
unfeelngness refined inhumanity IN the class
above them enough to revolt the camest heart. The
solution of mankind into Monads. of which each II
separate vitality pursues separate aim, the world
of atoms. is here exhibited in its perfection In IN
dus,ry the workman is regarded only as part o
the capital TO which the employer pays interest Tor
lis use under the name of wages. II he is so lucky
as 10 get work, reward waits for him scarcely
sufficient to keep body and soul together II he can
not &c, it, he can steal if he is not afraid OF the Pc
lice or starvc and the police will take care that hi
can DO so quietly so as no, 10 disturb the upper
classes And really 80 men did s'arve under The
most revolving circumstances during the q month";
of Engels stay in England. How terrible the sui
ferng is in those cities may be seen from the folio"
inc particulars In London are al least 10000 per