ABSTRACT
The following article is a translation of one that I wrote at the invitation of our Paris friends for the Almanach du Parti Ouvrier pour 1892. I feel that I have a duty both to French and to German socialists to publish the article again in Germany. I am under an obligation to the French socialists to make it clear to the Germans that it is possible to discuss frankly with the French in what circumstances German socialists would undoubtedly take up arms against France. And I must make it clear to the Germans how free the French socialists are from the chauvinism and thirst for revenge that is shared by all the French middle-class parties from the monarchists to the radicals. And I have a duty to the German socialists to repeat to them what I have said about them to the French.
