On page 525, in Chapter 28, the Progress Publishers version gives a
slightly different translation:
[...] Two years earlier, the same House of Commons and the same Mr.
Gladstone in the well-known straightforward fashion brought in a bill
for the abolition of all exceptional penal legislation against the
working class. But this was never allowed to go beyond the second
reading, and the matter was thus protracted until at last the “great
Liberal party,” by an alliance with the Tories, found courage to turn
against the very proletariat that had carried it into power. Not
content with this treachery, the “great Liberal party” allowed the
English judges, ever complaisant in the service of the ruling classes,
to dig up again the earlier laws against “conspiracy,” and to apply
them to coalitions of labourers. We see that only against its will and
under the pressure of the masses did the English Parliament give up the
laws against Strikes and Trades’ Unions, after it had itself, for 500
years, held, with shameless egoism, the position of a permanent Trades’
Union of the capitalists against the labourers.
The credits of my copy (obtained on-line I remember not whence) read:
First published: in German in 1867, English edition first published in
1887;
Source: First English edition of 1887 (4th German edition changes
included as indicated) with some modernisation of spelling;
Publisher: Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR;
Translated: Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, edited by Frederick Engels;
Transcribed: Zodiac, Hinrich Kuhls, Allan Thurrott, Bill McDorman, Bert
Schultz and Martha Gimenez (1995-1996);
Proofed: by Andy Blunden and Chris Clayton (2008), Mark Harris (2010),
Dave Allinson (2015).
Perhaps this will allow someone to track it down to a specific page in
their favourite version.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 12:34:22PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:34:22 -0400
> From: Louis Proyect <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [marxmail] From a Marxmail alumnus
>
> Louis:
>
>
> I wrote to you a few weeks ago asking if you knew the source of a quip about
> “English judges wagging their tails for the ruling class.” (my paraphrase)
>
> Well, I found the passage in Capital 1. I located the full quote on-line.
> Unfortunately, there is no page number.
>[...]
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