FREDERICK LESSNER

Sixty Years in the Social-Democratic Movement

Before 1848 and After. Recollections of an Old Communist.

Source: Sixty Years in the Social-Democratic Movement , The Twentieth Century Press, London, 1907 (reprinted by Carl Slienger, London, 1976)

Transcription/Markup: Dave Allinson, 2019.

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Frederick Lessner was a staunch supporter of Marx and Engels from 1847 onwards and became one of their close friends. He was involved in the revolution of 1848-9 and in building the International Working Men's Assocation and other socialist organisations in Germany and England. These memoirs provide an invaluable first-hand account of the political battles of the period as well as an insight into the Marx household.

At least part of the book seems to have been first published in German as Vor 1848 und nachher. Erinnerungen eines alten Kommunisten. in Deutsche Worte vol. XVIII, Vienna, 1898. Lessner says that the translator for the English edition was ‘our comrade Thalmeyer’.

Contents

Foreword

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

In Remembrance of Karl Marx

In Remembrance of Frederick Engels

