Extract from a letter of Friedrich Engels to George Julian Harney (April 1844), quoted by the editor in the leading article “The ‘Movement,’ at Home and Abroad” of The Northern Star, No. 338, May 4, 1844, p. 4, which introduces it as the proposal of the author of the articles on “Continental Communism” (the rest of the leading article is not reproduced); attributed to Friedrich Engels by MEGA² (I/3), under the title “To the Editor of the Northern Star”. Text from the original newspaper (NCSE, Northern Star facsimile). Traducción al español
I propose furnishing you with reports concerning the progress of the movement party on the Continent for the Star, extracts from the German papers, and of my correspondence with well informed men in Paris and Germany. I see with pleasure, that your paper contains more and better information about the state of public opinion in France than all other English papers together; and, should like to place you in the same position as far as regards Germany. The political state of Germany is becoming more important every day. We shall have a revolution there very shortly, which cannot but end in the establishment of a Federal Republic. At the same time, I shall not confine myself to Germany, but report to you everything about Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Russia, &c., which will be likely to prove interesting to your readers; and I shall leave it entirely to yourself to make what use you think proper of the materials furnished by me.