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What do you say to the elections in the factory districts? Once again…

Quote byFriedrich Engels · 1820–1895

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Karl Marx (18 November 1868), quoted in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Correspondence, 1846–1895 (1942), pp. 253-254.

English (original)

What do you say to the elections in the factory districts? Once again the proletariat has discredited itself terribly... [I]t cannot be denied that the increase of working-class voters has brought the Tories more than their mere additional percentage and has improved their relative position.

— Friedrich Engels

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