This will moreover be conducive to the organisation of labour. In future the armies shall be simultaneously labour armies, so that the troops shall not, as formerly, merely consume, but shall produce more than is necessary for their upkeep. Transcribed by the marxist archive at “Workers of all countries, unite!” 3 įirst published: as a leaflet in Paris on March 24 or 25, 1848, in the supplement to the Berliner Zeitungs-Halle, on April 5, 1848, and in a number of other German newspapers it was repeatedly reprinted during the revolution of 1848 and after its defeat, in particular as a leaflet in Cologne issued not later than September 10, 1848.
Source: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 7, p.
