Cited:

“F. Engels, Po und Rhein, quoted from: H. Davis, n. dj, p. 60. Engels wrote in a similar way about small and large nations until the end of his life. In a letter to Bernstein from 1882, Engels says the following about the Serbs, Greeks and Bulgarians:

“I have every reason to believe that the existence of these primitive nations in the middle of Europe is an anachronism”.

Sources

Horace B. Davis, Nationalism and Socialism: Marxist and Labor Theories of Nationalism to 1917 (1967)

Eduard Bernstein, Eduard Bernsteins Briefwechsel mit Friedrich Engels, herausgegeben von Helmut Hirsch. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1970.

Friedrich Engels to Eduard Bernstein, London, 22 February 1882; continuation dated 25 February 1882.