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Letter to Friedrich Engels, January 6, 1859
| Author(s) | Karl Marx |
|---|---|
| Written | 6 January 1859 |
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 40
MARX TO ENGELS
IN MANCHESTER
[London,] 6 January 1859[1]
Dear Engels,
Will you be so good as to send me Lupus' address. If you have done with Serbia,[2] there is fresh material READY to hand in the (proposed) changes in the Landwehr in Prussia, on which I shall have to report.[3][4]
While Mr Edgar Bauer is editor[5] under THE AUSPICES of Scherzer and is even adopting 'class contradictions' and giving them a Berlin twist, Mr Gottfried Kinkel, who can't afford to let slip the opportunity presented by the Kinkel REVIVAL, is bringing out a weekly in London, to wit, the Hermann (not the Cheruscan, I presume, but Goethe's SIMPLETON).[6] Freiligrath, or so it seems from a brief note he sent me, is already REPENTANT of the BLUNDER[7] he committed. If you write, tell him (but most politely, OF COURSE, for he complains about the crude, brash tone of your letters) that in Manchester there is much talk among the Germans about his alliance with Kinkel; you might also slip in Heckscher's anecdote, quoting your source. At this particular time it is of moment to us that Freiligrath should break with these swine for good.
Apropos, Willich is now editing the gymnasts' paper in Cincinnati.[8] Was 'selected' as editor there. He accepted the appointment (doubtless obtained for him by Cluss so as to rid himself of the man) in a superb circular letter in which he says
that the time has come for him to take charge of propaganda since the people are not in need of military leaders just now.
Salut.
Your
K. M.
- ↑ 1858 in the original
- ↑ Marx had asked Engels to write an article for the New-York Daily Tribune about the events in the principality of Serbia. On 30 November 1858 the so-called St. Andrew Skupstina met after a long interval. At the session, the liberals, who had joined forces with the supporters of the Obrenovic dynasty, clashed with the ruling Ustavobranitelji (Defenders of Constitution) group representing the big landowners, traders and the top officialdom. The conflict led to the deposition of Alexander Karageorgievic and the reinstatement of Milos Obrenovic, who agreed to carry out a number of liberal reforms. The St. Andrew Skupstina abolished the oligarchic council set up under the 1838 Constitution, restored the Skupstina as a permanent legislative body, and declared freedom of the press. Though the liberal reforms were moderate and short-lived, the fall of the Ustavobranitelji regime gave an impulse to Serbia's economic and cultural development. It is unknown whether Engels wrote the article on Serbia.—364, 366
- ↑ Today's Times contains a detailed account dated Vienna of the latest brouhaha in Serbia.
- ↑ 'The Revolution in Servia', The Times, No. 23196, 6 January 1859.
- ↑ of Die Neue Zeit
- ↑ Gottfried Kinkel called his weekly after Arminius (Hermann), the leader of the Germanic tribes' struggle against Roman rule in the first century A. D. Marx hints at the coincidence of this title with the name of the hero of Goethe's poem 'Hermann und Dorothea', a simple, patriarchally-minded man striving for peace and a domestic idyll.—366
- ↑ See this volume, pp. 359 60.
- ↑ Die Turn-Zeitung