Letter to Adolf Cluss, April 26, 1853

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 26 April 1853


First published in Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXV, Moscow, 1934
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 39


MARX TO ADOLF CLUSS

IN WASHINGTON

[London, 26 April 1853]

Dear Cluss,

You must by now have received three letters from me.[1]

Enclosed a Jones Paper, containing an anti-Times article by 'Englishman'.[2]

If the Cologne Revelations have not yet been printed as a pamphlet, or gratis as such by the Neu-England-Zeitung, do nothing more about it, as it is now too late.

Willich has written to Herzen (the Russian) to say that everything is going 'splendidly', that he has achieved 'great results' and will soon be returning.

Mr Hentze, for one, is again implicated in the Berlin business.[3] In any case, as Willich-Kinkel's agent, he would have been possessed of old proclamations and revolutionary recipes. Furthermore, he was destined by these great men to be military commander of Berlin.

The local Rollinists[4] are blushing for shame over Ruge's proclamation of which they were informed by us. In no case had Ledru given Ruge permission to publish this discreditable letter. Ruge extorted the letter from Ledru through the latter's ex-servant, the ex-Palatinate lawyer, and ex-French deputy, Savoye—one-time pedlar of German adjectival[5] At all events, Ledru has sunk lower than ever before.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ Marx presumably refers to his letters to Cluss of 25 March and 17 April 1853 (see this volume, pp. 298-300 and 312-14) and one of about 10 April 1853 which is not extant. As emerges from Cluss' letter to Marx of 28 April 1853, Marx dealt in it with the publication in America of Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne as a separate book
  2. ↑ 'The Base and Brutal Times', The People's Paper, No. 51, 23 April 1853. Englishman—pen name of Alfred Richards.
  3. ↑ See this volume, pp. 315-16.
  4. ↑ followers of Ledru-Rollin
  5. ↑ Jones' letter to Weydemeyer of 3 March 1852 was intended for Die Revolution. It described the condition of various classes of English society and analysed the development of class struggle in England. Judging by Weydemeyer's letter to Marx of 24 May 1853, the letter was published in the American democratic papers at the end of 1852 or beginning of 1853