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Title: Engels to Florence Kelley-Wischnewetzky, London, 7 January 1886
Description: Engels on the Americans who think their country exempt from the consequences of capitalist production: let them read the reports of the Labor Bureaus.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1886-01-07
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1886-01-07%20Engels%20to%20Florence%20Kelley-Wischnewetzky
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*Letter from Friedrich Engels to Florence Kelley-Wischnewetzky in Zurich, London, 7 January 1886. Written in English. Text from: F. A. Sorge (ed.),* Briefe und Auszüge aus Briefen von Joh. Phil. Becker, Jos. Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx u. A. an F. A. Sorge und Andere *(Stuttgart, 1906), p. 207. Sorge prints an extract; the omitted beginning is not available to us in English. [Spanish translation](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1886-01-07%20Engels%20a%20Florence%20Kelley-Wischnewetzky)*

London, January 7th 1886.

. . . As to those wise Americans who think their country exempt from the consequences of fully expanded Capitalist production, they seem to live in blissful ignorance of the fact that sundry States, Massachusets, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio etc. have such an institution as a Labor Bureau from the reports of which they might learn something to the contrary.

Yours very truly

F. Engels.