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ocialism in the United States_, by Morris Hillquit, pages 161-162. [44] E. Belfort Bax, article on _Friederich Engels_, in _Justice_ (London), No. 606, Vol. XII, August 24, 1895. [45] _Disclosures about the Communists' Process, Herr Vogt_, etc. [46] Cf. G. Adler, _Die Grundlagen der Karl Marx'schen Kritik der bestehenden Volkswirthschaft_ (1887), page 226. [47] _Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs_, by Wilhelm Liebknecht, page 14. [48] _Idem_, page 164. [49] Cf. F. Mehring's _Aus dem literarischen Nachlass von Karl Marx, Friederich Engels, und Ferdinand Lassalle_, 1902; the _Neue Beitrage zur Biographie von Karl Marx und Friederich Engels, in Die Neue Zeit_, 1907, and Mehring's _Geschichte der deutschen Sozialdemokratie_, 1903. [50] _Memoirs of Marx_, by Wilhelm Liebknecht, page 164. [51] Karl Kautsky, article on F. Engels, _Austrian Labor Almanac_, 1887. [52] E. Belfort Bax, article on _Friederich Engels_, in _Justice_ (London), No. 606, Vol. XII, August 24, 1895. [53] Cf. _Reminiscences of Karl Marx_, by W. Harrison Riley, in _The Comrade_, Vol. III, No. 1, pages 5-6. [54] Marx opposed the "Alliance de la Democratic Socialiste," formed by Bakunin, with its headquarters at Geneva, almost as vigorously for its atheistic plank as for its denial of political methods. The first plank in the programme of the "Alliance" was as follows:-- "The Alliance declares itself Atheist; it demands the abolition of all worship, the substitution of science for faith, and of human justice for Divine justice; the abolition of marriage, so far as it is a political, religious, juridical, or civil institution." This programme is frequently quoted against the Socialist propaganda,--as, for example, by George Brooks, in _God's England or the Devil's_?--in spite of the fact that the "Alliance" was an Anarchist organization, bitterly opposed by Marx, and, in turn, bitterly opposing him. In this connection, it may be well to call attention to an alleged "quotation from Marx" which is frequently used by the opponents of Socialism. It appears in the work of Brooks, quoted above, and in Professor Peabody's _Jesus Christ and the Social Question_ (1907), page 16. Used in a public discussion by a New York labor union official, in April, 1908, it was widely discussed by the press, and, according to that same press, drew from the President of the United States enthusiastic praise of the labor-union official in question. The passa
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