3. K. Marx. Notes Concerning the Conflict in the Paris Section
3. K. Marx. Notes Concerning the Conflict in the Paris Section[2 3 2]
21 Febr. (TUESDAY). Central Council resolves to send Le Lubez over there. Leaves.
WEDNESDAY. 22 Febr. (Evening.) Lubez leaves. Paris. 23 Febr. Invitation to a MEETING with Lefort at Fribourg's, etc. (See LETTER OF Fribourg.) Lefort's reply in Schily's letter (p. 2). 24 Febr.[233] Evening. MEETING Fribourg, etc. 25 Febr. Morning. Lefort and Lubez visit Schily. Leaving Lefort in the vicinity for the time being, Schily then goes to Fribourg's, WHERE THEY FOUND DIFFERENT FRIENDS, AMONGST OTHERS A
FRIEND OF L E F O R T S . A L L WERE DECIDEDLY AGAINST HIS INTRUSION. ScHILY THEN WENT
AWAY T O FETCH HIM, AND DID NOT CONCEAL FROM HIM THAT HE CONSIDERED HIS CLAIM SUCH AS FORMULATED BY HIM UNTENABLE (p. 2). Lefort was deceived on this occasion (I.e.).[234] Steps taken to meet Lefort halfway (2, 3).
25 (!) Febr. Evening. MEETING. Le Lubez absent; went to Lefort's soirée (3, 4).
Description of this MEETING of 25 Febr. (pp. 4, 5, 6).
Endnotes
[232] Marx made these notes for his speeches at the meetings of the Standing Committee (Sub-Committee) on March 4 and 6, 1865 when it discussed a conflict between the founders of the Paris Section, the Proudhonist workers Tolain, Fribourg and Limousin, and a group of bourgeois republicans represented by the lawyer Lefort (see Note 60). The notes, which have been preserved in Marx's Notebook, were made on the basis of a long letter to him of February 25-28, 1865 from the German refugee Victor Schily, the Central Council's representative in Paris. References in brackets are to pages of this letter. The notes were written in German and English and were followed by the original draft resolution on the conflict in the Paris Section (see this volume, p. 330). The original of these notes was first published in The General Council of the First International. 1864-1866, Moscow, 1962.
[233] Marx made a slip of the pen here: "February 24" instead of "February 23". Hence the events of February 24, in particular the Council's evening meeting, were erroneously attributed to February 25. An exclamation mark suggests that Marx himself was puzzled by this date.
[234] It is evident from Schily's letter to Marx that in the morning of February 24 Lefort expressed his apprehension that the Paris Administration might be "deceived by Bonapartists". A guarantee against this, he believed, was his appointment as "literary defender" of the International Working Men's Association in Paris.