great service to the International by demonstrating in the most dramatic and evident manner that if anything can kill the International, it is the introduction of politics into its program. And: Is it not astonishing that Mr. Marx has believed it possible to graft onto this precise declaration, which he himself probably wrote, his scientific socialism? For this – the organization and the rule of the new society by socialist savants – is the worst of all despotic governments! Primary sources The Hague Congress of the First International, September 2–7, 1872. Minutes and Documents. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976. The Hague Congress of the First International, September 2–7, 1872. Reports and Letters. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. See also History of anarchism International Anarchist Congresses References 1872 conferences History of anarchism History of socialism Political congresses 1872 in politics Anarchism in the Netherlands International Workingmen's Association 19th century in The Hague ne:प्रथम इन्टरनेसनलको हेग महाधिवेशन