TO THE WORKING CLASSES
OF
GREAT - BRITAIN
Working Men!
To you I dedicate a work, in which I have tried to lay before my German Countrymen a
faithful picture of your condition, of your sufferings and struggles, of your hopes and
prospects. I have lived long enough amidst you to know something a bout your circum-
stances; I have devoted to their knowledge my most serious atten-tion, I have studied
the various official and non-official documents as fas as I was able to get hold of them -
I have not been satisfied with this, I wanted more than a mere abstract knowledge of my
subject, I wanted to see you in your own homes, to observe you in your every-day life, to
chat with you on your condition and grie-vances, to witness your struggles against the
social and political power of your oppressors. I have done so: I forsook the company
and the dinner-parties, the port-wine and champaign of the middle-classes, and devoted
my leisure-hours almost exclusively to the inter-course with plain Working Men; I am
both glad and proud of having done so. Glad, because thus I was induced to spend
many a happy hour in obtaining a knowledge of the realities of life-many an hour,
Trang đầu lời kêu gọi của Ph. Ăng-ghen "Gửi các giai cấp lao động Đại Bri-ten"
