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Marx-Engels Correspondence 1871

Engels to Cafiero

Abstract

Source: Marx and Engels on the Trade Unions,Edited by Kenneth Lapides;Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.

July 16, 1871

The trade-union movement, among all the big,

strong and rich trade unions, has become more an

obstacle to the general movement than an instrument

o its progress; and outside o the trade unions there

are an immense mass o !or"ers in London !ho have

"ept #uite a distance a!ay rom the political

movement or several years, and as a result are very 

ignorant. But on the other hand they are also ree o 

the many traditional pre$udices o the trade unions

and the other old sects, and thereore orm e%cellent

material !ith !hich one can !or".

 

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