FOOTNOTES:
[1] For a comprehensive description of the German government, see Dawson, Germany and the Germans, Vol. I.
[2] Liebknecht said, in the Breslau congress of the Social-Democratic party: "Lassalle is the man in whom the modern organized German labor movement had its origin."—"Sozial-Demokratische Partei-Tag," Protokoll, 1895, p. 66.
[3] For sketch of Lassalle and his work see Kirkup, History of Socialism, pp. 72 et seq.; Ely, French and German Socialism of Modern Times, p. 189; Rae, Contemporary Socialism, pp. 93 ff. For an extended account, see Dawson, German Socialism and Ferdinand Lassalle, London, 1888. Georg Brandes, Ferdinand Lassalle, originally in Danish, has been translated into German, 1877, and into English, 1911. Also see Franz Mehring. Die Deutsche Sozial-Demokratie: Ihre Geschichte und ihre Lehre; Bernhard Becker, Geschichte der Arbeiter Agitation Ferdinand Lassalles, Brunswick, 1874: this volume contains a good detailed account of Lassalle's work.
[4] Published in Zürich, 1863: Macht und Recht.
[5] Macht und Recht, p. 13.
[6] Letter dated April 22, 1863.
[7] "Öffentliches Antwort-schreiben an das Zentral Committee zur Berufung eines Allgemeinen Deutschen Arbeiter Congress zu Leipzig," first published in Zurich, 1863.
[8] In the Reichstag, September 16, 1878.
[9] When Bernstein collected Lassalle's works he wrote a sketch of the agitator's life as a preface. A number of years later, 1904, he published his second sketch, Ferdinand Lassalle and His Significance to the Working Classes, in which he shifted his position and assumed a Lassallian tone. This change of mind is typical of the Social Democratic movement toward the Lassallian idea.