ABSTRACT
A meeting was held which was attended by the communists Engels, Gigot, Heilberg, Marx, Seiler, Weitling, von Westphalen and Wolf. The policy of the Volkstribun, a German language newspaper edited in New York by Hermann Kriege was discussed and certain resolutions were passed, only Weitling voting against their adoption. The reasons why the resolutions were passed are given in the Circular. The resolutions are as follows :
The policy advocated by editor Hermann Kriege in the Volkstribun is not a communist policy.
The childish and pompous way in which Kriege advocates this policy seriously compromises the communist party not only in the United States but in Europe as well inasmuch as Kriege is regarded as the literary representative of German communism in New York.
If the fantastic soulful raptures in which Kriege indulges in New York and calls “communism” were accepted by the workers there it would lead to their complete demoralisation.
These resolutions and the justification for them will be circularised among communists in Germany, France and England.
A copy of the resolutions and the justification for them will be sent to the Volkstribun with the demand that they should be published in the next number of the journal.
