In 1895, Engels was deeply distressed when he discovered that his introduction to a new edition of "The Class Struggles in France", written by Marx in 1850, had been edited by Bernstein and Kautsky in a manner that left the impression that he had become a proponent of a peaceful road to socialism. On 1 April 1895, four months before his death, Engels wrote to Kautsky: I was amazed to see today in the "Vorwärts" an excerpt from my 'Introduction' that had been "printed without my knowledge" and tricked out in such a way as to present me as a peace-loving proponent of legality "quand même" (at all costs). Which is all the more reason why I should like it to appear in its entirety in the "Neue Zeit" in order that this disgraceful impression may be erased. I shall leave Liebknecht in no doubt as to what I think about it and the same applies to those who, irrespective of who they may be, gave him this opportunity of perverting my views and, what's more, without so much as a word to me about it.