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Title: To the Editor of the Northern Star (1844)
Description: Engels offers the Chartist paper regular reports on the movement party on the Continent and foresees a revolution in Germany ending in a federal republic.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1844-04
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1844%20To%20the%20Editor%20of%20the%20Northern%20Star
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*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](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1844%20Al%20director%20del%20Northern%20Star)*

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.