French revolutionary Marxist (1842-1911). Autograph letter signed. Paris. 26.06.1891. 8vo. 2 pages on bifolium.
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Letter to the delegates of the Austrian Workers' Party, in which Lafargue praises the Austrian Socialist Movement, that due to the workers' mentality, managed to withstand the police actions against them, that would otherwise have led into anarchy. Lafargue compares the Austrian situation to the German one. There, Bismarck's strategy fighting the workers' movement through his laws of exception even enhanced it, and even managed to import socialism to the USA through his expulsions: "L'énergie, l'intelligence et l'esprit de discipline des ouvriers de votre pays vous ont permis de triompher des manoeuvres policières pour égarer le mouvement socialiste autrichien dans l'anarchie [...] il brûle d'imiter Bismarck, qui par ses lois d'exception, a contribué à constituer le plus puissant parti socialiste qui existe, et par ses expulsions a réussi à importer le socialisme aux Etats-Unis d'Amérique".