Marx-Engels Correspondence 1886

Engels to Laura Lafargue

Abstract

Source: Marx and Engels on the Trade Unions, Edited by Kenneth Lapides;

Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.

May 23, 1886

So I do believe, too, that the anarchist follies of Chicago will do much good. If the present American movement — which so far as it is not exclusively German, is still in the Trades Union stage — had got a great victory on the 8 hours question, Trades Unionism would have become a fixed and final dogma. While a mixed result will help to show them that it is necessary to go beyond “high wages and short hours.”