Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle Marx and Engels 1879
A Private Circulation Letter from Marx and Engels, (First drafted by Engels) to Germany's Social-Democratic leadership This was in response to an August 1879 article "Retrospects on the Socialist Movement in Germany" The magazine piece advocated transforming the German Social-Democratic party from a revolutionary to a reformist platform. It is an unavoidable phenomenon, well established in the course of development, that people from the ruling class also join the proletariat and supply it with educated elements. This we have already clearly stated in the Manifesto. Here, however, two remarks are to be made: First, such people, in order to be useful to the proletarian movement, must bring with them really educated elements. This, however, is not the case with the great majority of German bourgeois converts. Neither the Zukunft [fortnightly Berlin magazine] nor the Neue Gesellschaft [monthly Zurich periodical] has provided anything to advance the movement one step. Th...
