41. List of Documents Despatched to Cologne during the Communist Trial
41. List of Documents Despatched to Cologne during the Communist Trial[3]
1) Brothers Braubach—Schneider (original) October 27, business friend.
2) J.A.Boecker—Schneider (copy) October 27, Michael Shaw-cross & Co.
3) I.D. Herstadt—Hontheim—to Marx — Fisher Brothers. 4) J.H.Stein—Esser I — to Marx—business friend. 5) Leonhard Sadée — Schneider I I — t o Marx—Smith (Wilson) Dryer & Co.
6) Düsseldorfer Haus—Schneider II — from London, October 25 (Marx on Cherval, theoretical explanation).[364]
7) Ebner—for von Hontheim — London, October 26 (triplicate of Marx's first letter to Schneider)—letters of Becker b and Daniels to Marx, new samples of Hirsch's handwriting—Cherval's statement in The People's Paper—original letter from Stieber to Marx.[365]
8) G. Jung—Schneider II. London, October 27? 1. Legally attested handwriting and affidavit. 2. Quadruple of the first letter to Schneider, together with samples of Hirsch's handwriting. [3 6 6] 3. Extract from Becker's letter to Marx on Willich. 4. Three letters from Bermbach to Marx. 5. Copy of Stieber's letter. 6. Instruction to Schneider together with information of the despatch of No. 9 and No. 10.
9) Schneider II, registered — Duplicate of the affidavit, October 28.
10) W. in Düsseldorf—Schneider II — Registration certificate on No. 9, October 28.
This list was drawn up by Engels.— Ed. Hermann Heinrich Becker.— Ed.
Nos. 3, 4 or 5: one used for Schneider II. Explanation about Reuter, Stieber, Dietz,[367] October 29.
11) d. No. from B. 8c Co. von Hontheim—Extract from Marx's first letter to Schneider—Notification of the non-receipt of Schneider's letter.
12) G. Blank & Son. 13) Hasselmann Schults 8c Co.
Written about October 31, 1852
Endnotes
[3] Serfdom was abolished in the territories along the left bank of the Rhine annexed to France during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, as were the privileges of the nobility and the clergy, and the church estates.
[365] first letter and Jones' reply to it. Neale's second letter was published on November 15, 1851 (No. 29) and Jones' reply on November 22 (No. 30). These two letters by Neale and Jones' replies to them show clearly the difference between the viewpoints of the Christian socialist and the proletarian revolutionary. The former saw the aim of the co-operative movement in distracting the workers from the class struggle and called for the collaboration of hostile classes and the reconciliation of their interests. Jones, supported by Marx, emphasised that from the viewpoint of the workers' liberation struggle peaceful co-operation had no prospect and that under capitalism workers' co-operative societies could not exist for long; they would not withstand competition on the part of big capital and would go bankrupt, or else they would turn into purely capitalist enterprises deriving profit from exploiting workers. The decisive condition, Jones said, for the workers' co-operative societies to be really of use to the working class was that the latter win political power in order to reorganise the existing system in the interest of the working people. Of Jones' many articles on co-operation the two mentioned at the beginning of this note are included in this volume because they most vividly reflect the influence of Marx's views on Jones and show clearly that Marx in fact took part in writing them.
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