To Engels in Manchester
[London,] 18 February [1852], 28 Dean Street, Soho
I shall write to you at length on Saturday. Only a few lines today.
I have not yet received the money that was promised me from home and so have not yet been able to hand over your £2 to Pieper, but have told him I have had a few lines from you in which you informed me that I should be receiving money for him from you. I hope I shall be able to pay him before the week is out.
If your time is very much taken up, you would certainly do better to write for Dana than for Jones. The enclosed letter from Weydemeyer[1] will show you even more plainly how essential it is not to interrupt these articles.[2] What must be done now is to redouble our attacks in the Tribune on the Frankfurt Left,[3] especially when you come to the 'March Association'.[4] To help you, I am today sending you Bauer's book[5] in which at least a few facts are to be found.
I again pray you to send me the issues of the 'Tribune' by return, since Johnson is the only Englishman to whom I can turn when in extremis[6] — and I hover constantly on the brink. Don't forget it this time!
How is it that Weydemeyer has not received a single one of your articles [England]? You must set an inquiry on foot.
Your
K. M.
- ↑ In a letter of 6 February 1852 (with a postscript from Cluss) Weydemeyer informed Marx of the suspension of Die Revolution (see Note 2) and Cluss' and his intention to continue publication of Marx's works written in London, as announced in the first issue of the journal. Weydemeyer also wrote that on 4 February 1852 Dana published in the New-York Daily Tribune an article by Ludwig Simon (a deputy to the Frankfurt National Assembly), 'Movements of the German Political Exiles', attacking Marx and Engels.-^37, 44 56 The reference is to the former deputies of the Frankfurt National Assembly. The Frankfurt Left—the petty-bourgeois Left wing of the National Assembly which was convened after the March revolution in Germany and opened its session in Frankfurt on 18 May 1848. The main aim of the Assembly was to put an end to the political disunity of Germany and draw up an all-German Constitution. However it failed to take a decisive stand on the basic problems of the 1848-49 German revolution and ceased to exist on 18 June 1849
- ↑ F. Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany.
- ↑ March associations (thus named after the March 1848 revolution) were branches in various German towns of the Central March Association, founded in Frankfurt am Main at the end of November 1848 by Left-wing deputies to the Frankfurt National Assembly. Fröbel, Simon, Rüge, Vogt and other petty- bourgeois democratic leaders of the associations confined themselves to revolutionary phrase-mongering and displayed indecision and inconsistency in the struggle against counter-revolution, for which Marx and Engels criticised them sharply in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (see K. Marx, 'The Frankfurt March Association and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung', present edition, Vol. 9)
- ↑ In writing about the King of Prussia being imposed on the German people Marx had in mind the all-German central government headed by a hereditary emperor and the Imperial Parliament—the Reichstag, which were envisaged by the Imperial Constitution drawn up by the Frankfurt Assembly. On 28 March 1849 the Assembly offered the imperial crown to Frederick William IV of Prussia but he refused to accept it from the 'people's representation'
- ↑ B. Bauer, Der Untergang des Frankfurter Parlaments.
- ↑ in extreme need